Update get_history.py example

examples/get_history.py

@@ -19,7 +19,6 @@
 import time
 
 from pyrogram import Client
-from pyrogram.api import functions
 from pyrogram.api.errors import FloodWait
 
 """This example shows how to retrieve the full message history of a chat"""
@@ -28,30 +27,27 @@ app = Client("my_account")
 app.start()
 
 target = "me"  # "me" refers to your own chat (Saved Messages)
-history = []  # List that will contain all the messages of the target chat
-limit = 100  # Amount of messages to retrieve for each API call
-offset = 0  # Offset starts at 0
+messages = []  # List that will contain all the messages of the target chat
+offset_id = 0  # ID of the last message of the chunk
 
 while True:
     try:
-        messages = app.send(
-            functions.messages.GetHistory(
-                app.resolve_peer(target),
-                0, 0, offset, limit, 0, 0, 0
-            )
-        )
+        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 messages.messages:
-        break  # No more messages left
+    if not m.messages:
+        break
 
-    history.extend(messages.messages)
-    offset += limit
+    messages += m.messages
+    offset_id = m.messages[-1].message_id
+
+    print("Messages: {}".format(len(messages)))
 
 app.stop()
 
-# Now the "history" list contains all the messages sorted by date in
+# Now the "messages" list contains all the messages sorted by date in
 # descending order (from the most recent to the oldest one)