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---
title: searchChats
description: Searches for specified query in the title and username of known chats, offline request. Returns chats in the order of them in the chat list
---
## Method: searchChats
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YOU CANNOT USE THIS METHOD IN MADELINEPROTO
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Searches for specified query in the title and username of known chats, offline request. Returns chats in the order of them in the chat list
### Params:
| Name | Type | Required | Description |
|----------|:-------------:|:--------:|------------:|
|query|[string](../types/string.md) | Yes|Query to search for, if query is empty, returns up to 20 recently found chats|
|limit|[int](../types/int.md) | Yes|Maximum number of chats to be returned|
### Return type: [Chats](../types/Chats.md)
### Example:
```
$MadelineProto = new \danog\MadelineProto\API();
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if (isset($token)) { // Login as a bot
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$MadelineProto->bot_login($token);
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}
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if (isset($number)) { // Login as a user
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$sentCode = $MadelineProto->phone_login($number);
echo 'Enter the code you received: ';
$code = '';
for ($x = 0; $x < $sentCode['type']['length']; $x++) {
$code .= fgetc(STDIN);
}
$MadelineProto->complete_phone_login($code);
}
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$Chats = $MadelineProto->searchChats(['query' => 'string', 'limit' => int, ]);
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```
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Or, if you're using [PWRTelegram ](https://pwrtelegram.xyz ):
### As a bot:
POST/GET to `https://api.pwrtelegram.xyz/botTOKEN/madeline`
Parameters:
* method - searchChats
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* params - {"query": "string", "limit": int, }
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```
### As a user:
POST/GET to `https://api.pwrtelegram.xyz/userTOKEN/searchChats`
Parameters:
query - Json encoded string
limit - Json encoded int
```
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Or, if you're into Lua:
```
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Chats = searchChats({query='string', limit=int, })
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```