Deleting all messages in discord.js text channel

Question

Ok, so I searched for a while, but I couldn\'t find any information on how to delete all messages in a discord channel. And by all messages I mean every single message ever writ

Answer 1

This will work so long your bot has appropriate permissions.

module.exports = {
    name: "clear",
    description: "Clear messages from the channel.",
    args: true,
    usage: "",
    execute(message, args) {
        const amount = parseInt(args[0]) + 1;

        if (isNaN(amount)) {
            return message.reply("that doesn't seem to be a valid number.");
        } else if (amount <= 1 || amount > 100) {
            return message.reply("you need to input a number between 1 and 99.");
        }

        message.channel.bulkDelete(amount, true).catch((err) => {
            console.error(err);
            message.channel.send(
                "there was an error trying to prune messages in this channel!"
            );
        });
    },
};

In case you didn't read the DiscordJS docs, you should have an index.js file that looks a little something like this:

const Discord = require("discord.js");
const { prefix, token } = require("./config.json");

const client = new Discord.Client();
client.commands = new Discord.Collection();
const commandFiles = fs
    .readdirSync("./commands")
    .filter((file) => file.endsWith(".js"));

for (const file of commandFiles) {
    const command = require(`./commands/${file}`);
    client.commands.set(command.name, command);
}

//client portion:

client.once("ready", () => {
    console.log("Ready!");
});

client.on("message", (message) => {
    if (!message.content.startsWith(prefix) || message.author.bot) return;

    const args = message.content.slice(prefix.length).split(/ +/);
    const commandName = args.shift().toLowerCase();

    if (!client.commands.has(commandName)) return;
    const command = client.commands.get(commandName);

    if (command.args && !args.length) {
        let reply = `You didn't provide any arguments, ${message.author}!`;

        if (command.usage) {
            reply += `\nThe proper usage would be: \`${prefix}${command.name} ${command.usage}\``;
        }

        return message.channel.send(reply);
    }

    try {
        command.execute(message, args);
    } catch (error) {
        console.error(error);
        message.reply("there was an error trying to execute that command!");
    }
});

client.login(token);