discord.jsmessagepurge

Purge command throws error after purging - Discord.js V13

I'm made a purge command which targets a particular member and deletes the given amount. The problem is it deletes the messages correctly while on completion it throws a unknown error. Help me fix it! Here's the code and its error

const Discord = require('discord.js');
const { Permissions } = require('discord.js');
const { MessageEmbed } = require("discord.js")

module.exports = {
    description: 'purge command',
    run: async (client, message, args) => {
        setTimeout(() => message.delete(), 3500);

        if (message.member.permissions.has(Permissions.FLAGS.KICK_MEMBERS)) {

            let purgeMember = message.mentions.users.first()
            let amount = args[1]
            if (!purgeMember) return message.channel.send("Please Mention a Member to purge").then(msg => { setTimeout(() => msg.delete(), 4000) })
            if (!amount) return message.channel.send("Please provide a valid number to purge").then(msg => { setTimeout(() => msg.delete(), 4000) })
            if (isNaN(amount)) return message.channel.send("Please provide a valid number to purge").then(msg => { setTimeout(() => msg.delete(), 4000) })
            if (amount > 99) return message.channel.send("I can delete upto 100 messages only").then(msg => { setTimeout(() => msg.delete(), 4000) })

            let AllMessages = await message.channel.messages.fetch()
            let FilteredMessages = await AllMessages.filter(x => x.author.id === purgeMember.id)
            let deletedMessages = 0
            FilteredMessages.forEach(msg => {
                if (deletedMessages >= amount) return
                msg.delete()
                deletedMessages++
            })

        } else {
            message.channel.send('🛡️ | You DONT have permission to use this command!').then(msg => { setTimeout(() => msg.delete(), 5000) })
        }

    },
}

Error

   throw new DiscordAPIError(data, res.status, request);
            ^

DiscordAPIError: Unknown Message
    at RequestHandler.execute (D:\STUFF\BOT\Passion-Bot-V13\node_modules\discord.js\src\rest\RequestHandler.js:298:13)
    V13\node_modules\discord.js\src\structures\Message.js:709:5) {
  method: 'delete',
  path: '/channels/886173223144792074/messages/886174452994437170',
  code: 10008,
  httpStatus: 404,
  requestData: { json: undefined, files: [] }
}
Solution

  • This error is thrown for a cached message which bot is unable to delete appearently ( maybe pinned?, maybe cached but non existant?) You could just supress this error via try/catch

    try {
  msg.delete()
} catch {}

    Furthermore at the topmost part of your code there's a setTimeout(() => message.delete(), 3500); (waiting 3.5 seconds before deleting the first message), when you loop through your messages it's highly likely that the particular message with the command is in the cache existing too, so either one of those would delete it.

    My suggestion: