How can I get an array of all the messages from a text channel in discord.py?

Question

I have the channel object, and I've tried

mess = channel.history(limit=200)

but mess is a HistoryIterator object and does not contain any messages in its mess.messages object (size = 0). There are messages in the channel, so it shouldn't say the size is 0.

I've also tried:

mess = client.logs_from(channel, limit=200)

but PyCharm tells me that client has no logs_from function.

Is there an easy way to get all of the messages from a text channel in an array?

Answer 1

HistoryIterator implements the AsyncIterator interface. You can use the AsyncIterator.flatten method to consume the contents of the Iterator into a list:

messages = await channel.history(limit=200).flatten()