Method: spaces.messages.list

Lists messages in a space that the caller is a member of, including messages from blocked members and spaces. If you list messages from a space with no messages, the response is an empty object. When using a REST/HTTP interface, the response contains an empty JSON object, {}. For an example, see List messages.

Requires user authentication.

HTTP request

GET https://chat.googleapis.com/v1/{parent=spaces/*}/messages

The URL uses gRPC Transcoding syntax.

Path parameters

Parameters
parent

string

Required. The resource name of the space to list messages from.

Format: spaces/{space}

Query parameters

Parameters
pageSize

integer

Optional. The maximum number of messages returned. The service might return fewer messages than this value.

If unspecified, at most 25 are returned.

The maximum value is 1000. If you use a value more than 1000, it's automatically changed to 1000.

Negative values return an INVALID_ARGUMENT error.
pageToken

string

Optional. A page token received from a previous list messages call. Provide this parameter to retrieve the subsequent page.

When paginating, all other parameters provided should match the call that provided the page token. Passing different values to the other parameters might lead to unexpected results.
filter

string

Optional. A query filter.

You can filter messages by date (createTime) and thread (thread.name).

To filter messages by the date they were created, specify the createTime with a timestamp in RFC-3339 format and double quotation marks. For example, "2023-04-21T11:30:00-04:00". You can use the greater than operator > to list messages that were created after a timestamp, or the less than operator < to list messages that were created before a timestamp. To filter messages within a time interval, use the AND operator between two timestamps.

To filter by thread, specify the thread.name, formatted as spaces/{space}/threads/{thread}. You can only specify one thread.name per query.

To filter by both thread and date, use the AND operator in your query.

For example, the following queries are valid:

createTime > "2012-04-21T11:30:00-04:00"

createTime > "2012-04-21T11:30:00-04:00" AND
  thread.name = spaces/AAAAAAAAAAA/threads/123

createTime > "2012-04-21T11:30:00+00:00" AND

createTime < "2013-01-01T00:00:00+00:00" AND
  thread.name = spaces/AAAAAAAAAAA/threads/123

thread.name = spaces/AAAAAAAAAAA/threads/123

Invalid queries are rejected by the server with an INVALID_ARGUMENT error.
orderBy

string

Optional. How the list of messages is ordered. Specify a value to order by an ordering operation. Valid ordering operation values are as follows:

  • ASC for ascending.

  • DESC for descending.

The default ordering is createTime ASC.
showDeleted

boolean

Optional. Whether to include deleted messages. Deleted messages include deleted time and metadata about their deletion, but message content is unavailable.

Request body

The request body must be empty.

Response body

Response message for listing messages.

If successful, the response body contains data with the following structure:

JSON representation 
{
  "messages": [
    {
      object (Message)
    }
  ],
  "nextPageToken": string
}
Fields
messages[]

object (Message)

List of messages.
nextPageToken

string

You can send a token as pageToken to retrieve the next page of results. If empty, there are no subsequent pages.

Authorization scopes

Requires one of the following OAuth scopes:

  • https://www.googleapis.com/auth/chat.import
  • https://www.googleapis.com/auth/chat.messages
  • https://www.googleapis.com/auth/chat.messages.readonly

For more information, see the Authorization guide.