Message edited

messageUpdateMESSAGE_UPDATETrigger

Fires when a message is edited.

When to use this

On the canvas

This is what the trigger looks like in your bot's Triggers tab. The sparks listed are available in every node inside the linked flow.

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Message edited

messageUpdate

Trigger

Sparks in this flow

{{input.guild.id}}Your Discord server's unique ID

{{input.guild.name}}Your server's name

{{input.guild.memberCount}}How many members are in the server

{{oldMessage.content}}The message before the edit (empty if uncached)

{{newMessage.content}}The message after the edit

{{message.id}}The message's unique ID

{{message.author.id}}Discord ID of who sent the message

{{message.author.name}}Author's username

{{message.channelId}}ID of the channel

{{channel.id}}ID of the channel (same as message.channelId)

{{channel.name}}Name of the channel

Use these in any piece config field inside flows triggered by this event.

Spark	Type	Description
`{{input.guild.id}}`	string	Your Discord server's unique ID
`{{input.guild.name}}`	string	Your server's name
`{{input.guild.memberCount}}`	string	How many members are in the server
`{{oldMessage.content}}`	string	The message before the edit (empty if uncached)
`{{newMessage.content}}`	string	The message after the edit
`{{message.id}}`	string	The message's unique ID
`{{message.author.id}}`	string	Discord ID of who sent the message
`{{message.author.name}}`	string	Author's username
`{{message.channelId}}`	string	ID of the channel
`{{channel.id}}`	string	ID of the channel (same as message.channelId)
`{{channel.name}}`	string	Name of the channel

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Not something you need to write — Kitcord registers these listeners automatically from your Kit.

TypeScript

client.on("messageUpdate", (oldMessage, newMessage) => {
  // {{oldMessage.content}}, {{newMessage.content}}
});