# API not returning messages for a channel

**URL:** <https://devforum.zoom.us/t/api-not-returning-messages-for-a-channel/124248>\
**Category:** Chat\
**Created:** [January 9, 2025, 3:04pm UTC](https://devforum.zoom.us/t/api-not-returning-messages-for-a-channel/124248 "2025-01-09T15:04:18Z")\
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**Author:** ![viraj.kanwade](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/devforum.zoom.us/viraj.kanwade/32/65433_2.png) [@viraj.kanwade](https://devforum.zoom.us/u/viraj.kanwade)\
**Post date:** [January 11, 2025, 3:44am UTC](https://devforum.zoom.us/t/api-not-returning-messages-for-a-channel/124248/5 "2025-01-11T03:44:36Z")

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Just realized, its the same issue I have seen before and which I still haven’t got any resolution.

> [@Chat message file info returns different data randomly](https://devforum.zoom.us/t/chat-message-file-info-returns-different-data-randomly/122788):
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> Till yesterday, the files in chat was returned as: "files": [{ "file\_id": "XYZ", "file\_name": "Image 2024-10-22 at 104726.png", "file\_size": 154507, "download\_url": "https://XYZ.zoom.us/file/download/XYZ" }], Today, I am seeing only file id "files": [{ "file\_id": "XYZ", }],

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