Function decode

helper_func.py:34–39

(base64_string)

    return base64_string

async def decode(base64_string):
    base64_string = base64_string.strip("=") # links generated before this commit will be having = sign, hence striping them to handle padding errors.
    base64_bytes = (base64_string + "=" * (-len(base64_string) % 4)).encode("ascii")
    string_bytes = base64.urlsafe_b64decode(base64_bytes) 
    string = string_bytes.decode("ascii")
    return string

async def get_messages(client, message_ids):
    messages = []