MTPyroger/examples/get_history.py
2018-06-22 13:30:18 +02:00

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# Pyrogram - Telegram MTProto API Client Library for Python
# Copyright (C) 2017-2018 Dan Tès <https://github.com/delivrance>
#
# This file is part of Pyrogram.
#
# Pyrogram is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
# it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License as published
# by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
# (at your option) any later version.
#
# Pyrogram is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
# but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
# MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
# GNU Lesser General Public License for more details.
#
# You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public License
# along with Pyrogram. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
import time
from pyrogram import Client
from pyrogram.api.errors import FloodWait
"""This example shows how to retrieve the full message history of a chat"""
app = Client("my_account")
target = "me" # "me" refers to your own chat (Saved Messages)
messages = [] # List that will contain all the messages of the target chat
offset_id = 0 # ID of the last message of the chunk
app.start()
while True:
try:
m = app.get_history(target, offset_id=offset_id)
except FloodWait as e:
# For very large chats the method call can raise a FloodWait
print("waiting {}".format(e.x))
time.sleep(e.x) # Sleep X seconds before continuing
continue
if not m.messages:
break
messages += m.messages
offset_id = m.messages[-1].message_id
print("Messages: {}".format(len(messages)))
app.stop()
# Now the "messages" list contains all the messages sorted by date in
# descending order (from the most recent to the oldest one)