From 8ad2b69bedb2292a65afd1c9a5fe75ff6b5ddce7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Dan <14043624+delivrance@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Mon, 26 Feb 2018 15:49:07 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Add get_participants example

---
 examples/get_participants.py | 38 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 38 insertions(+)
 create mode 100644 examples/get_participants.py

diff --git a/examples/get_participants.py b/examples/get_participants.py
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..3397eb42
--- /dev/null
+++ b/examples/get_participants.py
@@ -0,0 +1,38 @@
+import time
+
+from pyrogram import Client
+from pyrogram.api import functions, types
+from pyrogram.api.errors import FloodWait
+
+client = Client("example")
+client.start()
+
+target = "username"  # Target channel/supergroup
+users = []  # List that will contain all the users of the target chat
+limit = 200  # Amount of users to retrieve for each API call
+offset = 0  # Offset starts at 0
+
+while True:
+    try:
+        participants = client.send(
+            functions.channels.GetParticipants(
+                channel=client.resolve_peer(target),
+                filter=types.ChannelParticipantsSearch(""),  # Filter by empty string (search for all)
+                offset=offset,
+                limit=limit,
+                hash=0
+            )
+        )
+    except FloodWait as e:
+        # Very large channels will trigger FloodWait.
+        # When happens, wait X seconds before continuing
+        time.sleep(e.x)
+        continue
+
+    if not participants.participants:
+        break  # No more participants left
+
+    users.extend(participants.users)
+    offset += limit
+
+# Now the "users" list contains all the members of the target chat