MadelineProto/docs/TD_docs/methods/searchPublicChats.md

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title: searchPublicChats
description: Searches public chats by prefix of their username. Currently only private and channel (including supergroup) chats can be public. Returns meaningful number of results. Returns nothing if length of the searched username prefix is less than 5. Excludes private chats with contacts from the results
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## Method: searchPublicChats  
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YOU CANNOT USE THIS METHOD IN MADELINEPROTO


Searches public chats by prefix of their username. Currently only private and channel (including supergroup) chats can be public. Returns meaningful number of results. Returns nothing if length of the searched username prefix is less than 5. Excludes private chats with contacts from the results

### Parameters:

| Name     |    Type       | Required | Description |
|----------|---------------|----------|-------------|
|username\_prefix|[string](../types/string.md) | Yes|Prefix of the username to search|


### Return type: [Chats](../types/Chats.md)
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			`title: searchPublicChats`
			`description: Searches public chats by prefix of their username. Currently only private and channel (including supergroup) chats can be public. Returns meaningful number of results. Returns nothing if length of the searched username prefix is less than 5. Excludes private chats with contacts from the results`
			`---`
			`## Method: searchPublicChats`
			`[Back to methods index](index.md)`


Add TD warnings 2017-06-06 18:39:21 +02:00			`YOU CANNOT USE THIS METHOD IN MADELINEPROTO`


HUGE bugfixes and code reorganization, implemented secret chats and a lua wrapper 2017-03-11 19:54:51 +01:00			`Searches public chats by prefix of their username. Currently only private and channel (including supergroup) chats can be public. Returns meaningful number of results. Returns nothing if length of the searched username prefix is less than 5. Excludes private chats with contacts from the results`

Documentation rework (#349) * Documentation rework * Apply fixes from StyleCI * Documentation fixes * Login as bot through web/cli API, allow using invite links in joinChannel, full invite links in importChatInvite and checkChatInvite, non-invite links in importChatInvite * Apply fixes from StyleCI * Logging fixes * Build docs * Add methods to modify start template, bugfix to logging and keyboard conversion * Add TL documentator * Document MTProto methods * Documenting methods... * 7% documented * Bugfixes * Update docs * Update docs * Simplify file management * Implement automatic object conversion for media, and more awesome stuff * Implement automatic object conversion for media, and more awesome stuff * Implement event update handler and file upload/download callback * Auto-detect mime type, duration, width and height of media * Update docs * Document new file functions * Fix links * Fix links * Update bot.php to use event loop * Implement webhook update handler and forking in main loop * Build docs * Better docs * Fixes to secret chats * Almost finished updating docs * Bugfixes, implemented infinite loop for loop() method, almost finished docs * Finish writing docs * Add automatic documentation builder script * Finished writing docs 2018-03-20 12:48:05 +01:00			`### Parameters:`
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			`\| Name \| Type \| Required \| Description \|`
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			`### Return type: [Chats](../types/Chats.md)`