From 8d403a0274f073ad0d427e3122b58f8d9889e01b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: meew0 <blactbt@live.de>
Date: Wed, 12 Aug 2015 13:54:27 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Add an example to show channel logs

---
 examples/query.js | 50 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 50 insertions(+)
 create mode 100644 examples/query.js

diff --git a/examples/query.js b/examples/query.js
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..4cf7e7df1
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+++ b/examples/query.js
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+/*
+ * A bot that shows how to access and search the logs of a specific channel.
+ * Specifically, it returns the last message from a given user in the last
+ * 100 messages.
+ */
+
+var Discord = require( "discord.js" );
+var myBot = new Discord.Client();
+
+myBot.login( "hello@example.com", "password1" );
+
+myBot.on( "message", function( message ) {
+	// React to all messages starting with "$query".
+	if ( message.content.startsWith( "$query" ) ) {
+    // Obtain the channel for which logs should be accessed.
+    var channel = message.channel;
+
+    // Find all the arguments to the command.
+    var arguments = message.content.split(" ");
+
+    // Get the first argument specifically, as it contains the username
+    // to be queried for.
+    var username = arguments[1];
+
+    // Exit the event handler unless the user exists.
+    if( !username ) {
+      myBot.sendMessage(channel, "That user doesn't exist!");
+      return;
+    }
+
+    // The getChannelLogs() function takes the channel that should be accessed,
+    // the amount of messages to query and a callback as its arguments.
+    myBot.getChannelLogs( channel, 100, function( messageList ) {
+      // filter() takes three arguments, the key to be filtered for (in this
+      // case the username, so "username"), the value to look for, and whether
+      // only the first finding should be returned (true) or a list of all
+      // findings (false).
+      var message = messageList.filter( "username", username, true );
+
+      // Only continue if the message has been found
+      if( message ) {
+        myBot.sendMessage(channel, "The last message from user " + username +
+            " is: \"" + message.content + "\".").
+      } else {
+        myBot.sendMessage("That user has not sent a message " +
+            "for the last 100 messages!")
+      }
+    } );
+	}
+} );