import time from pyrogram import Client from pyrogram.api import functions from pyrogram.api.errors import FloodWait client = Client("example") client.start() target = "me" # "me" refers to your own chat (Saved Messages) history = [] # List that will contain all the messages of the target chat limit = 100 # Amount of messages to retrieve for each API call offset = 0 # Offset starts at 0 while True: try: messages = client.send( functions.messages.GetHistory( client.resolve_peer(target), 0, 0, offset, limit, 0, 0, 0 ) ) except FloodWait as e: # For very large chats the method call can raise a FloodWait time.sleep(e.x) # Sleep X seconds before continuing continue if not messages.messages: break # No more messages left history.extend(messages.messages) offset += limit client.stop() # Now the "history" list contains all the messages sorted by date in # descending order (from the most recent to the oldest one)