id of the message

id of the channel the message was sent in

id of the guild the message was sent in Note: For MESSAGE_CREATE and MESSAGE_UPDATE events, the message object may not contain a guild_id or member field since the events are sent directly to the receiving user and the bot who sent the message, rather than being sent through the guild like non-ephemeral messages.

The author of this message (not guaranteed to be a valid user) Note: The author object follows the structure of the user object, but is only a valid user in the case where the message is generated by a user or bot user. If the message is generated by a webhook, the author object corresponds to the webhook's id, username, and avatar. You can tell if a message is generated by a webhook by checking for the webhook_id on the message object.

Member properties for this message's author Note: The member object exists in MESSAGE_CREATE and MESSAGE_UPDATE events from text-based guild channels. This allows bots to obtain real-time member data without requiring bots to store member state in memory.

Contents of the message

When this message was sent

When this message was edited (or null if never)

Whether this was a TTS message

Whether this message mentions everyone

Users specifically mentioned in the message Note: The user objects in the mentions array will only have the partial member field present in MESSAGE_CREATE and MESSAGE_UPDATE events from text-based guild channels.

Roles specifically mentioned in this message

Channels specifically mentioned in this message Note: Not all channel mentions in a message will appear in mention_channels. Only textual channels that are visible to everyone in a lurkable guild will ever be included. Only crossposted messages (via Channel Following) currently include mention_channels at all. If no mentions in the message meet these requirements, this field will not be sent.

Any attached files

Any embedded content

Reactions to the message

Used for validating a message was sent

Whether this message is pinned

If the message is generated by a webhook, this is the webhook's id

Type of message

Sent with Rich Presence-related chat embeds

Sent with Rich Presence-related chat embeds

if the message is an Interaction or application-owned webhook, this is the id of the application

Data showing the source of a crossposted channel follow add, pin or reply message

Message flags combined as a bitfield

The stickers sent with the message (bots currently can only receive messages with stickers, not send)

The message associated with the message_reference Note: This field is only returned for messages with a type of 19 (REPLY). If the message is a reply but the referenced_message field is not present, the backend did not attempt to fetch the message that was being replied to, so its state is unknown. If the field exists but is null, the referenced message was deleted.

Sent if the message is a response to an Interaction

The thread that was started from this message, includes thread member object

The components related to this message

Sent if the message contains stickers