RPC Error 400: INPUT_METHOD_INVALID_2271179966_804740 caused by messages.GetAllChats

[angelobl]

I'm trying to get all chats with this line of code that was working yesterday

const { chats } = await client.invoke(new Api.messages.GetAllChats({ exceptIds: [] }))

But now I'm suddenly getting this error

RPCError: 400: INPUT_METHOD_INVALID_2271179966_804740 (caused by messages.GetAllChats)

This code has been working for months and now suddenly is throwing this error. Can anyone help?

[painor]

The method has been removed from telegram server side sadly.
you now need to use client.getDialogs for this.

[llaraujo]

The method has been removed from telegram server side sadly. you now need to use client.getDialogs for this.

Hello, I was not very clear how to get just the list of all chats related to a telegram account, could you better contextualize with example?

[0xARK]

I would be grateful to see an example too. I was using this method too but didn't saw any update about this endpoint from telegram API.

[zhornyk]

@0xARK @llaraujo I manage to write working example with getDialogs to get all chats:

async getAllChats() {
	const LIMIT = 100;
	const offsetId = 0;
	const offsetPeer = new Api.InputPeerEmpty();

	let resultCount = LIMIT;
	let offsetDate = 0;
	let chats = [];

	while (resultCount >= LIMIT) {
		const result = await this.client.invoke(
			new Api.messages.GetDialogs({
				offsetId,
				offsetPeer,
				offsetDate,
				limit: LIMIT
			}),
		);

		resultCount = result.dialogs.length;

		if (result.chats && result.chats.length > 0) {
			chats = [...chats, ...result.chats];
		}

		if (result.messages.length > 0) {
			offsetDate = result.messages[result.messages.length - 1].date;
		} else {
			break;
		}
	}

	return chats;
}

[0xARK]

I was thinking of doing exactly that ! The telethon "iter_dialogs" method made me think of iterating on the getDialogs pages but I didn't have time to look at it. Thanks for this code snippet :)

[painor]

gamjs does have the exact same method as telethon https://gram.js.org/beta/classes/TelegramClient.html#iterDialogs

[0xARK]

My bad, I didn't saw that when I checked at the doc. Anyway, i'm using another library at this time, but not maintained anymore, I will certainly migrate soon.