OpenIntegrations/docs/en/md/Slack/Channel-management/Get-channel-history.md

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# Get channel history
 Gets information about channel events



`Function GetChannelHistory(Val Token, Val Channel) Export`

  | Parameter | CLI option | Type | Description |
  |-|-|-|-|
  | Token | --token | String | Bot token |
  | Channel | --channel | String | Channel ID |

  
  Returns:  Map Of KeyAndValue - serialized JSON response from Slack

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```bsl title="Code example"
    Token   = "xoxb-6965308400114-696804637...";
    Channel = "C07R7MSSPDM";

    Result = OPI_Slack.GetChannelHistory(Token, Channel);
```



```sh title="CLI command example"
    
  oint slack GetChannelHistory --token %token% --channel "C070VPMKN8J"

```

```json title="Result"
{
 "ok": true,
 "messages": [
  {
   "subtype": "channel_join",
   "user": "U06UABH3APP",
   "text": "<@U06UABH3APP> has joined the channel",
   "inviter": "U06UG1CAYH2",
   "type": "message",
   "ts": "1728454514.991459"
  },
  {
   "subtype": "channel_purpose",
   "user": "U06UG1CAYH2",
   "purpose": "TestGoal",
   "text": "set the channel description: TestGoal",
   "type": "message",
   "ts": "1728454514.555299"
  },
  {
   "subtype": "channel_topic",
   "user": "U06UG1CAYH2",
   "topic": "TestTopic",
   "text": "set the channel topic: TestTopic",
   "type": "message",
   "ts": "1728454514.302599"
  },
  {
   "subtype": "channel_join",
   "user": "U06UG1CAYH2",
   "text": "<@U06UG1CAYH2> has joined the channel",
   "type": "message",
   "ts": "1728454513.920549"
  }
 ],
 "has_more": false,
 "is_limited": false,
 "pin_count": 0,
 "channel_actions_ts": null,
 "channel_actions_count": 0
}
```