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Method: channels.getMessages

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Get channel/supergroup messages

Parameters:

Name	Type	Description	Required
channel	Username, chat ID, Update, Message or InputChannel	Channel/supergroup	Optional
id	Array of Message ID or InputMessage	IDs of messages to get	Yes

Return type: messages.Messages

Can bots use this method: YES

MadelineProto Example (now async for huge speed and parallelism!):

if (!file_exists('madeline.php')) {
    copy('https://phar.madelineproto.xyz/madeline.php', 'madeline.php');
}
include 'madeline.php';

$MadelineProto = new \danog\MadelineProto\API('session.madeline');
$MadelineProto->start();

$messages.Messages = $MadelineProto->channels->getMessages(['channel' => InputChannel, 'id' => [InputMessage, InputMessage], ]);

Or, if you're into Lua:

messages.Messages = channels.getMessages({channel=InputChannel, id={InputMessage}, })

Errors

Code	Type	Description
400	CHANNEL_INVALID	The provided channel is invalid
400	CHANNEL_PRIVATE	You haven't joined this channel/supergroup
400	MESSAGE_IDS_EMPTY	No message ids were provided
400	MSG_ID_INVALID	Invalid message ID provided
406	AUTH_KEY_DUPLICATED	An auth key with the same ID was already generated
-503	Timeout	Timeout while fetching data