[Question] How to identify previous messages?

[Kariton]

How can I identify previous messages?
I don't mean send prior the "the bot being online".

I see that a reaction results in this:
ctx.message.raw_message.envelope.dataMessage.reaction

{
    "emoji": "\ud83d\udc4d",
    "targetAuthor": "REDACTED",
    "targetAuthorNumber": "REDACTED",
    "targetAuthorUuid": "REDACTED",
    "targetSentTimestamp": 1675109984233,
    "isRemove": false
}

but what is message "targetSentTimestamp": 1675109984233?

for contrast reply does make it more easily to identify the corresponding message:
ctx.message.raw_message.envelope.dataMessage.quote

{
    "id": 1234567890,
    "author": "REDACTED",
    "authorNumber": "REDACTED",
    "authorUuid": "REDACTED",
    "text": "message that I replied to",
    "attachments": []
}

I hope this question makes sense.

p.s.: questions wouldn't require a issue if you enable GitHub discussions in the repository settings. ;)

[Kariton]

For a Discord bot you can use this:

message = await ctx.send()

and get a discord.Message object.
it looks like this:

<Message id=1070157927677182043 channel=<TextChannel id=REDACTED name='general' position=0 nsfw=False news=False category_id=REDACTED> type=20 author=<Member id=REDACTED name='REDACTED' discriminator='REDACTED' bot=True nick=None guild=<Guild id=REDACTED name='BotTest' shard_id=None chunked=False member_count=4>> flags=<MessageFlags value=0>

signalbot returns None

[filipre]

At the moment you need to persist every message by yourself, either by using self.bot.storage.* or in some other way.

Maybe it makes sense to have a chat history option, so the bot can react to any message it already saw. It makes sense, because a smartphone also persist every message:
I can think of these options

• do not persist any chat history at all
• persist everything
• persist the last n messages (per group or user)

btw, I enabled GitHub discussions :)