[BUG] rate limited

[ghost]

keep getting this popping up every 5 seconds while it's deleting messages and I don't know what to do. This never used to happen before last time I used it. I tried changing the "search" and "delete" delays and it still continues happening.

[biast12]

Discord is rate limiting you, it's not a bug or anything like that, it's because you're sending too many requests when you delete messages

[ghost]

Discord is rate limiting you, it's not a bug or anything like that, it's because you're sending too many requests when you delete messages

How do I prevent this?

[biast12]

you don't, it's there to prevent people Ddosing Discords servers

[ghost]

Bruh, this never happened before though when i first started using it 😭 but ok then

[abigailwillow]

Discord has made rate limiting a lot stricter in recent years, so it is indeed possible that you used to be able to delete faster.

I would recommend setting the delete delay in the advanced section to 2500 ms. The current default is out of date, see https://github.com/victornpb/undiscord/wiki/delay and #402.

[ghost]

Discord has made rate limiting a lot stricter in recent years, so it is indeed possible that you used to be able to delete faster.

I would recommend setting the delete delay in the advanced section to 2500 ms. The current default is out of date, see https://github.com/victornpb/undiscord/wiki/delay and #402.

Oh ok thanks for the help I see if this would make it work better so it doesn't pause on the rate limited message for too long.

[ofernandofilo]

as already said, it's not a bug, it's expected behavior and determined by the discord server.

in personal tests, for you it may be different, I arrived at the values, as the lowest values, [search delay: 6400] and [delete delay: 2000] when deleting more than 500 messages at once.

any value below displays the message "being rate limited by the API".

for a smaller number of deleted messages, lower values can be used. however, with these values I delete more than 10K without any API mishap. [40K+ at the moment... and it will take more than 1 day.] _o/

edit: please read #414 for newer results...

update: [search delay: 1000] and [delete delay: 2200] tested for 999 messages at once with success. (about 400ms faster :p )