Guide ‐ History (Old Messages)

This guide is to show you how to make the bot go through all old messages in a channel and catalog them as though they were being sent right now, in order to download them all.

Command Arguments

If no channel IDs are specified, it will try and use the channel ID for the channel you're using the command in.

Argument / Flag	Details
channel ID(s)	One or more channel IDs, separated by commas if multiple.
all	Use all available registered channels.
cancel or stop	Stop downloading history for specified channel(s).
list or status	Output running history jobs in Discord & program.
--since=YYYY-MM-DD	Will process messages sent after this date.
--since=message_id	Will process messages sent after this message.
--before=YYYY-MM-DD	Will process messages sent before this date.
--before=message_id	Will process messages sent before this message.

Order of arguments does not matter

Examples

• ddg history
• ddg history cancel
• ddg history all
• ddg history stop all
• ddg history 000111000111000
• ddg history 000111000111000, 000222000222000
• ddg history 000111000111000,000222000222000,000333000333000
• ddg history 000111000111000, 000333000333000 cancel
• ddg history 000111000111000 --before=000555000555000
• ddg history 000111000111000 --since=2020-01-02
• ddg history 000111000111000 --since=2020-10-12 --before=2021-05-06
• ddg history 000111000111000 --since=000555000555000 --before=2021-05-06
• ddg history status
• ddg history list