How can i set the delete and search through limit in textchannel.purge() ?

[RazzerDE]

So I'm using channel.purge(limit=10, check=check) and my check is that:

def check (m):
  return m.embeds

But that only searches in 10 messages, but I want to delete 10 messages that fulfill my check. There should be no limit to searching through - How can I do that and what would be the best way for it?

[du-cki]

Hello. There is no "native" way of doing this, you'll have better luck iterating through history until your quote gets met, wouldn't recommend this due to it being subjected to ratelimits.

[RazzerDE]

Can't i set a count for the check or something if the limit is None?

[Vexs]

The problem arises where you have say, one million messages in a channel, and you want to delete the last 100 sent by someone who has only sent 10- naively, you'd search through the entire one million messages.

That's why it's implemented the way it is, and why implementations like what you want are left up to the developer- that said, I wouldn't list ratelimits as a substantial worry unless you run into the situation listed above.

[RazzerDE]

Okay but in this case, wouldn't it make sense to make a limit like the last 5,000 messages or something? Because I want to add a filter in my bot to remove only messages that have example attachments, or only mentions, or something like that. But I understand the struggle and the thoughts about that.

If a channel has one million messages, the author from the clear command probably wants to go through the last few days or hours. Maybe the higher the number of message in the chat, the smaller the search radius or something?

[RazzerDE]

So, what would be a way to solve this issue if I would make a hard limit to search though 1.000 messages?

[du-cki]

Not recommending this but if you still want to do this, you can have a counter in the predicate and just stop deleting the embeds after n amount of times. This won't stop the iteration though.