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Method: getChatHistory

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YOU CANNOT USE THIS METHOD IN MADELINEPROTO

Returns messages in a chat. Returns result in reverse chronological order, i.e. in order of decreasing message.message_id. Offline request if only_local is true

Parameters:

Name	Type	Description	Required
chat_id	int53	Chat identifier	Yes
from_message_id	int53	Identifier of the message near which we need a history, you can use 0 to get results from the beginning, i.e. from oldest to newest	Yes
offset	int	Specify 0 to get results exactly from from_message_id or negative offset to get specified message and some newer messages	Yes
limit	int	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	Yes
only_local	Bool	Return only locally available messages without sending network requests	Yes

Return type: Messages