Read Discord messages
TL;DR
About
Point it at any Discord channel, DM, group DM or thread your account can open and you get its latest messages back, newest first, as many as you ask for. Discord's own API route is a bot that a server admin has to add, and that bot also needs the Message Content intent before it sees any text. This reads as the account you are already signed in with, so it sees what you see in the app and nothing more. A typical run: a volunteer mod on a 3,000-member indie game server pulls the last 150 messages from a bug reports channel each morning, has Claude group the repeated crash reports, then works through the worst ones by hand. Text arrives as Discord stores it, so mentions stay as <@id>. Image-only posts come back with empty text, and reactions and reply links are not returned.
Input
channelUrl requiredFull channel URL: https://discord.com/channels/<guildId>/<channelId> for a server channel, or https://discord.com/channels/@me/<channelId> for a direct message (from discord.com/list_dms).
limit optionalHow many messages to return, newest first. Fewer come back when the channel is shorter.
Default: 20Output
count requiredmessages requiredNewest first.
channelId requiredExample output
Shape only: placeholder values generated from the output schema, not a real run.
{
"count": 3,
"messages": [
{
"author": "…",
"content": "…",
"messageId": "abc123",
"timestamp": "…",
"authorDisplayName": "…"
}
],
"channelId": "abc123"
}FAQ
Search Discord server messages
Search one Discord server's message history with Discord's own search, as the signed-in account, newest first. Search by words (content), and narrow by authors, channels, mentioned users and content type, each given as ids: get user ids from discord.com/get_member_list and channel ids from discord.com/list_channels. Returns one page of up to 25 matching messages with their author, text, time and link, Discord's total count of matches, and next_offset to read the next page (null on the last one). Fails with a clear error when the browser is not signed in to Discord, when the account is not a member of the server or can see no text channel in it, or when Discord is still indexing the server. Direct messages are not searched.
Post a Discord message
Posts a text message, optionally with a file attached, in a Discord channel addressed by its URL. Requires being logged in to Discord. Returns `sent` plus the created message's messageId, channelId, timestamp and content as Discord stored it. The message is visible to everyone who can see the channel. Empty messages and messages over 2000 characters are refused with a clear reason. Use dry_run to check a channel and message without posting.
Delete Discord message
Deletes a single Discord message by id (e.g. to clean up a message you sent). Requires being logged in as the message's author or having Manage Messages in the channel.