How to delete interaction.channel.send message-CodePudding

I have a function to delete a message after I send it:

export function del(interaction) {
  setTimeout(() => interaction.deleteReply(), 1000);
}

I want to convert it so this will be working to interaction.channel.send, earlier I used interaction.reply(), but I don't want my bot to continue using reply to every command. I read Discord docs and didn't find anything helpful.

Any help on how to do this will be appreciated!

CodePudding user response：

To delete a message that was sent using interaction.channel.send(), you can use the Message#delete() method provided by the Discord.js library.

Here's how you can modify your del() function to delete the message sent by interaction.channel.send():

export async function del(interaction) {
  try {
    // Send the message
    const sentMessage = await interaction.channel.send("This is a message to be deleted");
    // Delete the message after 1 second
    setTimeout(() => sentMessage.delete(), 1000);
  } catch (error) {
    console.error(error);
  }
}

Note that the Message#delete() method is an asynchronous function and returns a promise, so you need to use await when calling it. Also, the Message#delete() method can throw an error if it fails, so it's a good idea to wrap it in a try-catch block to handle any errors.

CodePudding user response：

When you use interaction.channel.send you need to track the new message that you created (as it separate from the interaction).

Here is a quick sample where I have /ping command that creates and deletes a reply and a message:

module.exports = {
  data: new SlashCommandBuilder()
    .setName("ping")
    .setDescription("Replies with Pong!"),
  async execute(interaction) {
    await interaction.reply("Pong!");
    const msg = await interaction.channel.send("Pong! 2!");

    //Delete reply
    setTimeout(async () => {
      await interaction.deleteReply();
    }, 1000);

    //delete message
    setTimeout(async () => {
      await msg.delete();
    }, 1500);
  },
};