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Read Discord messages

Reads the most recent messages of a Discord channel (author, timestamp, text), newest first, scrolling up to load more until the requested count. Requires being logged in. It also reads a thread or a forum post, since both are channels in their own right: pass the post's url (from discord.com/list_forum_posts) and you get its replies plus the opening post, newest first — there is no separate thread-reading script. To list the posts of a forum channel rather than its messages, use discord.com/list_forum_posts instead.

Input

channelUrl required

Full channel URL, e.g. https://discord.com/channels/<guildId>/<channelId>

limit optional

How many messages to return, newest first. Fewer come back when the channel is shorter.

Default: 20

Output

count required
messages required

Newest first.

channelId required

FAQ

Reads the most recent messages of a Discord channel (author, timestamp, text), newest first, scrolling up to load more until the requested count. Requires being logged in. It also reads a thread or a forum post, since both are channels in their own right: pass the post's url (from discord.com/list_forum_posts) and you get its replies plus the opening post, newest first — there is no separate thread-reading script. To list the posts of a forum channel rather than its messages, use discord.com/list_forum_posts instead.
Required: channelUrl. Optional: limit.
It returns count, messages, channelId.
Yes. It acts as you on discord.com: on your own Chrome it reuses your session, and on a Reduck-hosted browser it loads the discord.com cookies saved by the Reduck extension.
It only reads. It looks things up on discord.com and changes nothing there.
Ask an AI agent connected to Reduck to run reduck/discord.com/read_messages, or run it from a terminal with the Reduck CLI: npx @reduck-ai/cli@latest run --script reduck/discord.com/read_messages
It is part of Reduck's official curated catalogue.

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