How can I count discord messages using a discord bot and a datastore?

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Hi I’m trying to count discord messages. Currently I’m using the discord bot and saving a number in a datastore every hour. However as the discord bot emits an event for each message at once it is only counting 1 event each time the workflow is triggered.

I have tried editing the source code of the discord bot and adding in a delay for when each event is emitted, but it then started to only emit a single event each hour. I don’t suppose anyone has any ideas how I could approach this or where I may have gone wrong with the code?

} else {
messages.forEach((message, i) => {
setTimeout(() => {
this.$emit(message, {
summary: message.content,
id: message.id, // dedupes events based on this ID
});
}, i * 1000);
});
}

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Hi, good question.

Instead of trying to modify the source, have you thought about incrementing the data store value on every event in the workflow?

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You would have to retrieve the latest data store value in the same workflow, then add 1 and store it as the latest value.

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Hey Pierce yes that is exactly what I have done. However, when multiple messages are emitted at the same time the increment doesn’t work.

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Ah ok, so you have a race condition.

You could potentially set the number of workers to 1, so that way only one message can be processed at a time.

That would help with this race condition without code changes.

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oh i see that would be this yes?

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I’ve ripped through my invocations today testing, but fingers crossed this will do it. Many thanks for your help. :raised_hands:

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Yup! That’s the setting to control workers. So now they’ll be processed one at a time.

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Sure thing :grinning: