Delete From Only One Channel?

[Errora403]

How can I use this script to delete messages from one specific server channel only?

[cedws]

There's no functionality to do this in the tool, since it would require finding various IDs which wouldn't be user friendly. There is a way you could do this though. If you follow the instructions for a full deletion, but delete the files (from the data archive) which contain messages from other channels, it will delete only the ones you leave behind.
I'm planning to build a browser extension to delete messages, and it will probably include the ability to delete messages from particular channels.

[Errora403]

Can I find the specific channel folder, ZIP it and refer to it when executing that command?

[cedws]

Sorry, yes, I forgot that it will automatically extract the ZIP. As long as you retain the same structure of files when you ZIP it back up, it will delete from the channels left behind as you want it to.

[Errora403]

Just to clarify, can I move a specific channel folder to a different location, and ZIP only that one folder? Will that work to delete messages from only that channel?

[cedws]

You can do that, but you need to retain the original structure of the ZIP file. So you'll need to have a messages directory inside, and then that should contain a numbered folder containing channel.json and messages.csv.

[cedws]

Yeah, this is stupid, sorry. I'm going to add basic whitelist/blacklist parameters for this use case.

[cedws]

If you get the new version of the script now, you can use -w/--whitelist and specify the ID you've found here. That'll ensure only messages are deleted from that channel. Your command will look something like:
./discord-delete.py full -p [PATH] -w 276837249075773460

[Errora403]

Wow. This is awesome. Thank you.

[ylluminarious]

@cedws Does this whitelist feature still work in the new Go implementation? I tried to use it, but it says: Error: unknown flag: --whitelist

[cedws]

@cedws Does this whitelist feature still work in the new Go implementation? I tried to use it, but it says: Error: unknown flag: --whitelist

Hey. Sorry, the Go version doesn't have this feature. You can still get the Python version from Releases or the PythonImpl branch, not sure if it still works.

[ylluminarious]

@cedws Okay, thanks for letting me know. I ended up using this tool instead: https://github.com/victornpb/deleteDiscordMessages

It would still be nice to have a CLI version, though. So I hope you'll consider re-adding this feature to the Go implementation 🙂