Message History Tutorial

Learn to implement persistent message storage and retrieval with advanced filtering

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Message History

Persistent message storage and retrieval with advanced filtering

Welcome to Message History!

This tutorial demonstrates persistent message storage and retrieval capabilities.

✅ Persistent message storage
✅ Advanced filtering and search
✅ Date range queries
✅ Export to multiple formats

Step 1: Live History

This page publishes a batch of messages to a real channel, then reads them back through the platform's history API. Every row below is persisted data.

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Step 2: Initialize History

Set up message history for your application.

const history = new OddSockets.MessageHistory({
  apiKey: 'your-api-key',
  channel: 'general'
});

Step 3: Retrieve Messages

Fetch messages with filtering and pagination.

const messages = await history.getMessages({
  limit: 50,
  offset: 0,
  dateFrom: '2023-01-01',
  dateTo: '2023-12-31'
});

Step 4: Search Messages

Implement advanced search functionality.

const results = await history.search({
  query: 'hello world',
  user: 'alice',
  type: 'text',
  dateRange: 'last-week'
});

Step 5: Export Data

Export message history in various formats.

const exportData = await history.export({
  format: 'json',
  dateRange: 'last-month',
  includeMetadata: true
});

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