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title: "messages.channelMessages"
description: "Channel messages"
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# Constructor: messages.channelMessages  
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Channel messages

### Attributes:

| Name     |    Type       | Required | Description |
|----------|---------------|----------|-------------|
|inexact|[Bool](/API_docs/types/Bool.html) | Optional|If set, returned results may be inexact|
|pts|[int](/API_docs/types/int.html) | Yes|[Event count after generation](https://core.telegram.org/api/updates)|
|count|[int](/API_docs/types/int.html) | Yes|Total number of results were found server-side (may not be all included here)|
|offset\_id\_offset|[int](/API_docs/types/int.html) | Optional|Indicates the absolute position of `messages[0]` within the total result set with count `count`. <br>This is useful, for example, if the result was fetched using `offset_id`, and we need to display a `progress/total` counter (like `photo 134 of 200`, for all media in a chat, we could simply use `photo ${offset_id_offset} of ${count}`.|
|messages|Array of [Message](/API_docs/types/Message.html) | Yes|Found messages|
|topics|Array of [ForumTopic](/API_docs/types/ForumTopic.html) | Yes|[Forum topic](https://core.telegram.org/api/forum#forum-topics) information|
|chats|Array of [Chat](/API_docs/types/Chat.html) | Yes|Chats|
|users|Array of [User](/API_docs/types/User.html) | Yes|Users|



### Type: [messages.Messages](/API_docs/types/messages.Messages.html)


### Example:

```
$messages_channelMessages = ['_' => 'messages.channelMessages', 'inexact' => Bool, 'pts' => int, 'count' => int, 'offset_id_offset' => int, 'messages' => [Message, Message], 'topics' => [ForumTopic, ForumTopic], 'chats' => [Chat, Chat], 'users' => [User, User]];
```