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List Messages

GET /v1/messages

Property	Value
Operation	`list_messages`
Group	Messages
Scope	`messages:read`
Route class	`read`
Idempotency	No `Idempotency-Key`
Audit	Not audited: A metadata read: the list answers no recipient and no text.
Released in	1.60.0
Phase 0 host	Served (the hosted api pins 1.65.0)

Lists the Messages, newest first, with optional filters (1.60.0). The list answers content null, so it is not a content read and is not audited.

Request

Set VOCAL_API to the base URL of your API and VOCAL_API_KEY to an API key with the messages:read scope (Authentication and keys). Replace each placeholder, such as agt_... or <name>, with your own value.

curl "$VOCAL_API/v1/messages" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $VOCAL_API_KEY"

const response = await fetch(`${process.env.VOCAL_API}/v1/messages`, {
  headers: {
    Authorization: `Bearer ${process.env.VOCAL_API_KEY}`,
  },
});
console.log(response.status, await response.text());

import os

import requests

response = requests.get(
    f"{os.environ['VOCAL_API']}/v1/messages",
    headers={
        "Authorization": f"Bearer {os.environ['VOCAL_API_KEY']}",
    },
)
print(response.status_code, response.text)

Parameters

Name	In	Type	Required	Description
`limit`	query	integer	no	The page size, 1 to 100.
`cursor`	query	string	no	The opaque `next_cursor` of the previous page; it binds the filters it was issued under.
`action`	query	MessagingAction	no
`channel`	query	MessageChannel	no
`status`	query	MessageStatus	no
`related_call_id`	query	CallId	no
`notification_rule_id`	query	NotificationRuleId	no	Only the Messages this notification rule sent (1.61.0).
`created_after`	query	RequestTimestamp	no	Only the Messages created at or after this instant (1.60.0); the start of the range is inclusive.
`created_before`	query	RequestTimestamp	no	Only the Messages created before this instant (1.60.0); the end of the range is exclusive.

Responses

Status	Content type	Shape	Error codes
`200`	`application/json`	MessageList
`400`	`application/json`	ErrorEnvelope	`invalid_request`, `invalid_cursor`
`401`	`application/json`	ErrorEnvelope	`unauthenticated`
`403`	`application/json`	ErrorEnvelope	`forbidden`
`429`	`application/json`	ErrorEnvelope	`rate_limited`
`500`	`application/json`	ErrorEnvelope	`internal_error`

Fields of the `200` answer

The shape is MessageList.

Field	Type	Required	Description
`data`	array of Message	yes	The Messages of this page, newest first.
`has_more`	boolean	yes	True when a further page exists.
`next_cursor`	string or null	yes	The cursor of the next page, or null on the last page.
`object`	`"list"`	yes