Download Channel Messages By Channel — download_channel

Fetches messages for a channel by username or numeric id and returns a tibble with message fields and nested structures as list columns.

Usage

download_channel_messages(
  client,
  channel,
  limit = Inf,
  include_channel = TRUE,
  start_date = NULL,
  end_date = NULL,
  show_progress = TRUE,
  timeout_sec = getOption("telegramR.iter_timeout", 60),
  max_timeouts = 3,
  reconnect_on_timeout = TRUE,
  ...
)

Arguments

client: TelegramClient instance.
channel: character or numeric. Channel username (with or without "@") or numeric id.
limit: integer or Inf. Maximum number of messages to fetch.
include_channel: logical. If TRUE, include channel fields on every row.
start_date: POSIXct/Date/character. Earliest date to include (UTC).
end_date: POSIXct/Date/character. Latest date to include (UTC).
show_progress: logical. If TRUE, display a progress bar.
timeout_sec: numeric. Max seconds to wait per fetch before retrying. Use 0 to disable.
max_timeouts: integer. Number of timeouts to tolerate before aborting.
reconnect_on_timeout: logical. If TRUE, reconnect client on timeout.
...: Passed to client$iter_messages() (e.g. offset_id, max_id, min_id).

Value

A tibble.