Python-slack-sdk: Access old channel messages.

[naveenjafer]

Description

How do we access old channel messages with the slackclient before the bot was added to the channel. Is this possible in the first place?

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[aoberoi]

You sure can. You’ll have to use the Web API to call the channels.history method.

sc.api_call("channels.history", options)

[naveenjafer]

Hi @aoberoi Thank you for that. Is it restricted to 1000 messages though?

[aoberoi]

No, you can go back to the beginning of the channel history. You just can’t get more than 1000 messages at a time. Use the latest and oldest options to traverse the history by a chunk at a time.

[naveenjafer]

Perfect, thank you :)