From 4561d04c67d98d1882cf72fcd10b0aa8cfbedcc5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Dan <14043624+delivrance@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Mon, 26 Feb 2018 15:43:03 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Add get_history example

---
 examples/get_history.py | 35 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 35 insertions(+)
 create mode 100644 examples/get_history.py

diff --git a/examples/get_history.py b/examples/get_history.py
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..f1f36eca
--- /dev/null
+++ b/examples/get_history.py
@@ -0,0 +1,35 @@
+import time
+
+from pyrogram import Client
+from pyrogram.api import functions
+from pyrogram.api.errors import FloodWait
+
+client = Client("example")
+client.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
+
+while True:
+    try:
+        messages = client.send(
+            functions.messages.GetHistory(
+                client.resolve_peer(target),
+                0, 0, offset, limit, 0, 0, 0
+            )
+        )
+    except FloodWait as e:
+        # For very large chats the method call can raise a FloodWait
+        time.sleep(e.x)  # Sleep X seconds before continuing
+        continue
+
+    if not messages.messages:
+        break  # No more messages left
+
+    history.extend(messages.messages)
+    offset += limit
+
+# Now the "history" list contains all the messages sorted by date in
+# descending order (from the most recent to the oldest one)