Whatsapp-web.js: Fetch only unread messages

Created on 29 Apr 2020 · 4Comments · Source: pedroslopez/whatsapp-web.js

Is there any way to fetch only unread messages from each chat?

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parthibd

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You can use:

let chats = await client.getChats();
for (let chat of messages){
  if( chat.unreadCount > 0){
    unreadMessages = await chat.fetchMessages( {limit: chat.unreadCount} );
  }
}

leobaldoneto on 22 May 2020

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@pedroslopez Any ideas how to implement this feature ?

parthibd on 29 Apr 2020

You may be able to filter by ack. https://pedroslopez.me/whatsapp-web.js/Message.html#ack

You can see the possible values here: https://github.com/pedroslopez/whatsapp-web.js/blob/bcd02aa5e4cb96387487595ff02f2c0308793160/src/util/Constants.js#L128

Read messages have an ack of 3, which means unread would have a value < 3.

I’m not entirely sure, I’m not able to test at the moment, but you could give it a shot. Let me know if it works, if not I can do some tests later on

pedroslopez on 29 Apr 2020

You can use:

let chats = await client.getChats();
for (let chat of messages){
  if( chat.unreadCount > 0){
    unreadMessages = await chat.fetchMessages( {limit: chat.unreadCount} );
  }
}

leobaldoneto on 22 May 2020

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