Import messages and contacts with date range

[alohacrmchat]

Currently, the Evolution API does not provide a way to retrieve messages and contacts based on a date range. This limits the ability to perform historical analysis and data synchronization for systems that need to maintain an interaction history.

It would be useful to have an endpoint that allows requesting messages and contacts filtered by date. A possible implementation for this feature could be:

Suggested Implementation:

• A new endpoint, such as /messages/history and /contacts/history, that accepts date parameters (start_date and end_date).

Benefits:

• Enables retrieving old messages without relying solely on real-time events.
• Facilitates data migration and synchronization in external systems.
• Reduces the need to store all messages locally for future queries.

If this functionality already exists in some way, please clarify how we can use it. Otherwise, this improvement would greatly enhance the scalability of the API.

Thank you! 🚀

[yewkay]

I have a issue that will benefit from this solution. my chatwoot crashed but evolution API has been collecting the messages diligently behind the scene. When chatwoot came online, the messages were not imported and i have about 3 days of missing data.