Retrieve Thread History

Learn how to retrieve history of a particular chat room

Get messages of a chat room

POST https://api.iflychat.com/api/1.1/threads/get

This endpoint allows you to get history of a chat room programmatically

Request Body

Name	Type	Description
start_timestamp	string	The start timestamp (in milliseconds) of the range between which you want the thread history (optional)
end_timestamp	string	The end timestamp (in milliseconds) of the range between which you want the thread history (optional)
limit	string	The number of results to be returned (optional)
timezone_offset	string	The difference in milliseconds between UTC and your local time. The value should negative if the local timezone is behind UTC and positive if it is ahead. For example, if your time zone is UTC+5:30 hours (Indian Standard Time), the value would be 19800000(5.5x60x60x1000). The default value is 0 (optional)
room_id	string	This can be a string or an array. The string will contain the id of the room whose thread history you want to retrieve and the array will contain the id of the rooms whose thread history you want to retrieve.
api_key	string	The private API key of your website

200 Here is a sample response

[
 {
  "time": 1439793830,
  "from_id": "14",
  "room_id": "5",
  "from_name": "prateek",
  "room_name": "Mobile Room",
  "message": "hello",
  "message_id": "m_14_c-5_1439793800313"
  },
  {
  "time": 1440491549,
  "from_id": "0-14358329043yvbs",
  "room_id": "5",
  "from_name": "Guest Michael",
  "room_name": "General Room",
  "message": "how are you?",
  "message_id": "m_0-14358329043yvbs_c-5_1440491559161"
  },
  {
  "time": 1440491833,
  "from_id": "0-14358329043yvbs",
  "room_id": "5",
  "from_name": "Guest Michael",
  "room_name": "General Room",
  "message": "whats up?",
  "message_id": "m_0-14358329043yvbs_c-5_1440491842827"
 },
]

Curl Command

This the sample curl command required to make HTTP request:

curl -H "Content-Type: application/json" -X POST https://api.iflychat.com/api/1.1/threads/get -d 
"{\"api_key\": \"Wr4vpoJ_ET3lpBdX9E9TutUic4Dgb-gc7RGzuZvKqZgW5\",  \"room_id\": \"5\", \"start_timestamp\": \"1433142614\",    
\"end_timestamp\": \"1433154346\", \"limit\": \"3\"}"