Does not retrieve full chat history

[shanehamp]

Thanks for this-

I have a long-running group with over 150,000 messages and going back to 2012/2013. The CSV file generated by retrieve_msgs stops short at the most recent 83,000 messages, or date 7/23/14, or 8 MB file size. Is there a way to retrieve all messages going back to the beginning of the group? Alternatively, a way to limit CSV retrieval to messages sent before a certain date?

[youyanggu]

Hmm I'm not aware of any limitations on how many messages it can go back. Maybe GroupMe itself doesn't keep the messages going back that far? But right now, there is no option to specify the dates, sorry.

[HyrumO]

I have been testing with this and I believe they dont save all of the messages. Another problem may be a time-out in the program itself. I have multiple programs and each scrape a different amount of messages. My question is, why would you need .15 million messages? 80,000 seems enough to make a statistic.