Retrieving prior chat messages #4903

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BlankAdventure
Aug 8, 2025

I'm playing around with a gimmicky bot I want to use in big chat group. When sent a particular command, I want it to reply based on the context of the chat history (based on some n prior messages). Looking around, it seems this is not possible?

(to be clear, I do not mean retrieving the last few messages with the bot! I mean retrieving the last few messages of the chat in which the bot lives)

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Yes, IIRC Bot API has no way for fetching older messages after they've been delivered to your bot. You can keep track of them as they come if that suits you, just note that some could be deleted later without you knowing.

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