MadelineProto/docs/TD_docs/methods/searchChatMessages.md
Daniil Gentili 7a0153a139
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

29 lines
1.9 KiB
Markdown

---
title: searchChatMessages
description: Searches for messages with given words in the chat. Returns result in reverse chronological order, i. e. in order of decreasing message_id. Doesn't work in secret chats with non-empty query (searchSecretMessages should be used instead) or without enabled message database
---
## Method: searchChatMessages
[Back to methods index](index.md)
YOU CANNOT USE THIS METHOD IN MADELINEPROTO
Searches for messages with given words in the chat. Returns result in reverse chronological order, i. e. in order of decreasing message_id. Doesn't work in secret chats with non-empty query (searchSecretMessages should be used instead) or without enabled message database
### Parameters:
| Name | Type | Required | Description |
|----------|---------------|----------|-------------|
|chat\_id|[int53](../types/int53.md) | Yes|Chat identifier to search messages in|
|query|[string](../types/string.md) | Yes|Query to search for|
|sender\_user\_id|[int](../types/int.md) | Yes|If not 0, only messages sent by the specified user will be returned. Doesn't supported in secret chats|
|from\_message\_id|[int53](../types/int53.md) | Yes|Identifier of the message from which we need a history, you can use 0 to get results from the beginning|
|offset|[int](../types/int.md) | Yes|Specify 0 to get results exactly from from_message_id or negative offset to get specified message and some newer messages|
|limit|[int](../types/int.md) | Yes|Maximum number of messages to be returned, should be positive and can't be greater than 100. If offset is negative, limit must be greater than -offset. There may be less than limit messages returned even the end of the history is not reached|
|filter|[SearchMessagesFilter](../types/SearchMessagesFilter.md) | Optional|Filter for content of the searched messages|
### Return type: [Messages](../types/Messages.md)