Because Discord Partner Terms and Discord T&S exist at an intersection of insanity.

retrocensor.py

#!/usr/bin/env python3
"""
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"""
import asyncio
import logging
import os
import re

try:
    import discord
    from discord.ext import commands
except ImportError:
    raise RuntimeError(
        "You need the rewrite of discord.py for this script"
        "python3 -m pip install discord.py -U
    )

log = logging.getLogger()
log.setLevel(logging.INFO)

bot = commands.AutoShardedBot(
    command_prefix=commands.when_mentioned,
    description="Censorship is dumb. Rewriting & erasing history is dumber. Here we are.",
)


async def channel_cleaner(
    ctx: commands.Context, channel: discord.TextChannel, pattern: re.Pattern
):

    count = 0
    async for message in channel.history(limit=None):
        if message.content and pattern.match(message.content):
            try:
                _id = message.id
                url = message.jump_url
                await message.delete()
            except discord.HTTPException:
                log.info(f"Could not delete message {url}")
            else:
                count += 1
                log.info(f"Deleted message {_id}")

    await ctx.send(f"No more books to burn in {channel.mention} (burned {count})")


@commands.bot_has_permissions(manage_messages=True)
@commands.guild_only()
@commands.is_owner()
@bot.command()
async def retroactivecensor(ctx: commands.Context, *, phrase: str):
    """
    Will delete tons of messages. Case insensitive.
    """

    pattern = re.compile(re.escape(phrase), re.I)
    tasks = [
        channel_cleaner(ctx, c, pattern)
        for c in ctx.guild.text_channels
        if c.permissions_for(ctx.guild.me).manage_messages
    ]

    await asyncio.gather(*tasks)
    await ctx.send("I'm done burning books.")


@commands.bot_has_permissions(manage_messages=True)
@commands.guild_only()
@commands.is_owner()
@bot.command()
async def retroactiveregexcensor(ctx: commands.Context, *, pattern: str):
    """
    Takes a regex pattern. Filters all the messages which match it.
    Not ReDoS safe, make your regex carefully to avoid pathalogical expansions.
    """

    pattern = re.compile(pattern)
    tasks = [
        channel_cleaner(ctx, c, pattern)
        for c in ctx.guild.text_channels
        if c.permissions_for(ctx.guild.me).manage_messages
    ]

    await asyncio.gather(*tasks)
    await ctx.send("I'm done burning books.")


if __name__ == "__main__":
    if not discord.__version__.startswith("1.0."):
        print("You need the rewrite version of discord.py for this script.")
        sys.exit(1)

    TOKEN = os.environ.get("CENSORSHIPTOKEN")
    if not TOKEN:
        print(
            "You need to run this with your token "
            'stored in an environment var named "CENSORSHIPTOKEN"'
        )
        sys.exit(1)
    print(
        "I hate that this is a neccessary tool, but here we are. Use with caution and discretion."
    )
    bot.run(TOKEN)