chats: getAllMessages

Namespace: microsoft.graph

Get all messages from all chats that a user is a participant in, including one-on-one chats, group chats, and meeting chats.

Note: This is a metered API that supports the model=A and model=B payment models. For details, see Payment models. If you don't specify a payment model in your query, the default evaluation mode will be used.

Depending on which payment model you choose, a license might also be required.

This API is available in the following national cloud deployments.

Global service	US Government L4	US Government L5 (DOD)	China operated by 21Vianet
✅	❌	❌	❌

Permissions

Choose the permission or permissions marked as least privileged for this API. Use a higher privileged permission or permissions only if your app requires it. For details about delegated and application permissions, see Permission types. To learn more about these permissions, see the permissions reference.

Permission type	Least privileged permissions	Higher privileged permissions
Delegated (work or school account)	Not supported.	Not supported.
Delegated (personal Microsoft account)	Not supported.	Not supported.
Application	Chat.Read.All	Chat.ReadWrite.All

HTTP request

GET /users/{id | user-principal-name}/chats/getAllMessages

Optional query parameters

You can use the model query parameter, which supports the values A and B, based on the preferred licensing and payment model, as shown in the following examples.

GET /users/{id | user-principal-name}/chats/getAllMessages?model=A
GET /users/{id | user-principal-name}/chats/getAllMessages?model=B

If no model parameter is specified, evaluation mode is used.

This method also supports date range parameters to customize the response, as shown in the following example.

GET /users/{id}/chats/getAllMessages?$top=50&$filter=lastModifiedDateTime gt 2020-06-04T18:03:11.591Z and lastModifiedDateTime lt 2020-06-05T21:00:09.413Z

This method supports the $filter query parameter. The following table lists examples.

Scenario	$filter parameter	Possible values
Get messages sent by user identity type	$filter=from/user/userIdentityType eq '{teamworkUserIdentityType}'	aadUser, onPremiseAadUser, anonymousGuest, federatedUser, personalMicrosoftAccountUser, skypeUser, phoneUser
Get messages sent by application type	$filter=from/application/applicationIdentityType eq '{teamworkApplicationIdentity}'	aadApplication, bot, tenantBot, office365Connector, outgoingWebhook
Get messages sent by user ID	$filter=from/user/id eq '{oid}'
Get control(system event) messages	$filter=messageType eq 'systemEventMessage'
Exclude control (system event) messages	$filter=messageType ne 'systemEventMessage'

Note: These filter clauses can be joined by using the or operator. A filter clause can appear more than once in a query, and it can filter on a different value each time it appears within the query..

Request headers

Header	Value
Authorization	Bearer {token}. Required. Learn more about authentication and authorization.

Response

If successful, this method returns a 200 OK response code and a list of chatMessages in the response body.

Errors

This API has licensing and payment requirements. If these requirements are not met, the API returns one of the following errors.

Sample error type	Status code	Sample error message
E5 license requirement not met	402 (Payment Required)	"...needs a valid license to access this API..." "...tenant needs a valid license to access this API..."
Evaluation capacity exceeded	402 (Payment Required)	"...evaluation mode capacity has been exceeded. Use a valid billing model..."

Example

Request

HTTP

GET https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/users/0b4f1cf6-54c8-4820-bbb7-2a1f4257ade5/chats/getAllMessages?$top=2

C#

// Code snippets are only available for the latest version. Current version is 5.x

// To initialize your graphClient, see https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/sdks/create-client?from=snippets&tabs=csharp
var result = await graphClient.Users["{user-id}"].Chats.GetAllMessages.GetAsGetAllMessagesGetResponseAsync((requestConfiguration) =>
{
	requestConfiguration.QueryParameters.Top = 2;
});

For details about how to add the SDK to your project and create an authProvider instance, see the SDK documentation.

CLI

// THE CLI IS IN PREVIEW. NON-PRODUCTION USE ONLY
mgc users chats get-all-messages get --user-id {user-id} --top "2"

For details about how to add the SDK to your project and create an authProvider instance, see the SDK documentation.

Go

import (
	  "context"
	  msgraphsdk "github.com/microsoftgraph/msgraph-sdk-go"
	  graphusers "github.com/microsoftgraph/msgraph-sdk-go/users"
	  //other-imports
)

graphClient := msgraphsdk.NewGraphServiceClientWithCredentials(cred, scopes)



requestTop := int32(2)

requestParameters := &graphusers.UserItemChatsGetAllMessages()RequestBuilderGetQueryParameters{
	Top: &requestTop,
}
configuration := &graphusers.UserItemChatsGetAllMessages()RequestBuilderGetRequestConfiguration{
	QueryParameters: requestParameters,
}

getAllMessages, err := graphClient.Users().ByUserId("user-id").Chats().GetAllMessages().GetAsGetAllMessagesGetResponse(context.Background(), configuration)

For details about how to add the SDK to your project and create an authProvider instance, see the SDK documentation.

Java

// Code snippets are only available for the latest version. Current version is 6.x

GraphServiceClient graphClient = new GraphServiceClient(requestAdapter);

var result = graphClient.users().byUserId("{user-id}").chats().getAllMessages().get(requestConfiguration -> {
	requestConfiguration.queryParameters.top = 2;
});

For details about how to add the SDK to your project and create an authProvider instance, see the SDK documentation.

JavaScript

const options = {
	authProvider,
};

const client = Client.init(options);

let getAllMessages = await client.api('/users/0b4f1cf6-54c8-4820-bbb7-2a1f4257ade5/chats/getAllMessages')
	.top(2)
	.get();

For details about how to add the SDK to your project and create an authProvider instance, see the SDK documentation.

PHP

<?php
use Microsoft\Graph\GraphServiceClient;
use Microsoft\Graph\Generated\Users\Item\Chats\GetAllMessages\GetAllMessagesRequestBuilderGetRequestConfiguration;


$graphServiceClient = new GraphServiceClient($tokenRequestContext, $scopes);

$requestConfiguration = new GetAllMessagesRequestBuilderGetRequestConfiguration();
$queryParameters = GetAllMessagesRequestBuilderGetRequestConfiguration::createQueryParameters();
$queryParameters->top = 2;
$requestConfiguration->queryParameters = $queryParameters;


$result = $graphServiceClient->users()->byUserId('user-id')->chats()->getAllMessages()->get($requestConfiguration)->wait();

For details about how to add the SDK to your project and create an authProvider instance, see the SDK documentation.

PowerShell

Import-Module Microsoft.Graph.Users.Functions

Get-MgAllUserChatMessage -UserId $userId -Top 2 

For details about how to add the SDK to your project and create an authProvider instance, see the SDK documentation.

Python

from msgraph import GraphServiceClient
from msgraph.generated.users.item.chats.getAllMessages.get_all_messages_request_builder import GetAllMessagesRequestBuilder

graph_client = GraphServiceClient(credentials, scopes)

query_params = GetAllMessagesRequestBuilder.GetAllMessagesRequestBuilderGetQueryParameters(
		top = 2,
)

request_configuration = GetAllMessagesRequestBuilder.GetAllMessagesRequestBuilderGetRequestConfiguration(
query_parameters = query_params,
)

result = await graph_client.users.by_user_id('user-id').chats.get_all_messages.get(request_configuration = request_configuration)

For details about how to add the SDK to your project and create an authProvider instance, see the SDK documentation.

Response

Note: The response object shown here might be shortened for readability.

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Content-type: application/json

{
    "@odata.context": "https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/$metadata#Collection(chatMessage)",
    "@odata.count": 2,
    "@odata.nextLink": "https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/users('0b4f1cf6-54c8-4820-bbb7-2a1f4257ade5')/chats/getallMessages?$top=2&$skiptoken=U2tpcFZhbHVlPTIjTWFpbGJveEZvbGRlcj1NYWlsRm9sZGVycy9UZWFtc01lc3NhZ2VzRGF0YQ%3d%3d",
    "value": [
        {
            "@odata.type": "#microsoft.graph.chatMessage",
            "id": "1621973534864",
            "replyToId": null,
            "etag": "1621973534864",
            "messageType": "message",
            "createdDateTime": "2021-05-25T20:12:14.864Z",
            "lastModifiedDateTime": "2021-05-25T20:12:14.864Z",
            "lastEditedDateTime": null,
            "deletedDateTime": null,
            "subject": null,
            "summary": null,
            "chatId": "19:3c9e92a344704332bbf5bda58f4d37b1@thread.v2",
            "importance": "normal",
            "locale": "en-us",
            "webUrl": null,
            "channelIdentity": null,
            "policyViolation": null,
            "eventDetail": null,
            "from": {
                "application": null,
                "device": null,
                "user": {
                    "id": "0b4f1cf6-54c8-4820-bbb7-2a1f4257ade5",
                    "displayName": "user1 a",
                    "userIdentityType": "aadUser"
                }
            },
            "body": {
                "contentType": "text",
                "content": "Hello user2, user 3"
            },
            "attachments": [],
            "mentions": [],
            "reactions": []
        },
        {
            "@odata.type": "#microsoft.graph.chatMessage",
            "id": "1622762567488",
            "replyToId": null,
            "etag": "1622762567488",
            "messageType": "message",
            "createdDateTime": "2021-06-03T23:22:47.488Z",
            "lastModifiedDateTime": "2021-06-03T23:22:47.488Z",
            "lastEditedDateTime": null,
            "deletedDateTime": null,
            "subject": null,
            "summary": null,
            "chatId": "19:0b4f1cf6-54c8-4820-bbb7-2a1f4257ade5_0d7c63d3-1306-4eec-8f21-588a70fb6ef1@unq.gbl.spaces",
            "importance": "normal",
            "locale": "en-us",
            "webUrl": null,
            "channelIdentity": null,
            "policyViolation": null,
            "eventDetail": null,
            "from": {
                "application": null,
                "device": null,
                "user": {
                    "id": "0b4f1cf6-54c8-4820-bbb7-2a1f4257ade5",
                    "displayName": "user1 a",
                    "userIdentityType": "aadUser"
                }
            },
            "body": {
                "contentType": "text",
                "content": "hi user2"
            },
            "attachments": [],
            "mentions": [],
            "reactions": []
        }
    ]
}

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