Exporting Channels

This method allows you to request an export of one or many channels and download all messages and metadata. Channel exports are created asynchronously, you can use the Task ID returned by the APIs to keep track of the status and to download the final result when it is ready.

The data created by the export is following the same format as the regular APIs and is JSON encoded. By default the entire history is included in the export, but you may optionally request the export to include only the messages in a specific interval using the messages_since and messages_until parameters.

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const response = await serverClient.exportChannel([{ 
    type: "livestream", 
    id: "white-room",  
    messages_since: "2020-11-10T09:30:00.000Z", 
    messages_until: "2020-11-10T11:30:00.000Z", 
}]); 
 
const taskID = response.task_id;

You can check the status of an export request using the task ID returned when the task was created. The result of the task contains the URL to the JSON file.

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const response = await serverClient.getExportChannelStatus(taskId); 
 
console.log(response.status);       // the status for this task 
console.log(response.result);       // the result object, only present if the task is completed 
console.log(response.result.url);   // the link to the JSON export 
console.log(response.error);        // if not null the description of the task error