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  <div id="dev_page_content"><p>Returns sparse positions of messages of the specified type in the chat to be used for shared media scroll implementation.</p>
<p>Returns the results in reverse chronological order (i.e., in order of decreasing message_id).</p>
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<pre class="page_scheme"><code><a  href="/constructor/messages.searchResultsPositions" >messages.searchResultsPositions</a>#53b22baf count:<a  href="/type/int" >int</a> positions:<a  href="/type/Vector%20t" >Vector</a>&lt;<a  href="/type/SearchResultsPosition" >SearchResultsPosition</a>&gt; = <a  href="/type/messages.SearchResultsPositions" >messages.SearchResultsPositions</a>;
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<a  href="/method/messages.getSearchResultsPositions"  class="current_page_link" >messages.getSearchResultsPositions</a>#9c7f2f10 flags:<a  href="/type/%23" >#</a> peer:<a  href="/type/InputPeer" >InputPeer</a> saved_peer_id:flags.2?<a  href="/type/InputPeer" >InputPeer</a> filter:<a  href="/type/MessagesFilter" >MessagesFilter</a> offset_id:<a  href="/type/int" >int</a> limit:<a  href="/type/int" >int</a> = <a  href="/type/messages.SearchResultsPositions" >messages.SearchResultsPositions</a>;</code></pre></p>
<h3><a class="anchor" href="#parameters" id="parameters" name="parameters"><i class="anchor-icon"></i></a>Parameters</h3>
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<td><strong>flags</strong></td>
<td style="text-align: center;"><a href="/type/%23">#</a></td>
<td>Flags, see <a href="/mtproto/TL-combinators#conditional-fields">TL conditional fields</a></td>
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<td><strong>peer</strong></td>
<td style="text-align: center;"><a href="/type/InputPeer">InputPeer</a></td>
<td>Peer where to search</td>
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<td><strong>saved_peer_id</strong></td>
<td style="text-align: center;"><a href="/mtproto/TL-combinators#conditional-fields">flags</a>.2?<a href="/type/InputPeer">InputPeer</a></td>
<td>Search within the <a href="/api/saved-messages">saved message dialog ยป</a> with this ID.</td>
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<td style="text-align: center;"><a href="/type/MessagesFilter">MessagesFilter</a></td>
<td>Message filter, <a href="/constructor/inputMessagesFilterEmpty">inputMessagesFilterEmpty</a>, <a href="/constructor/inputMessagesFilterMyMentions">inputMessagesFilterMyMentions</a> filters are not supported by this method.</td>
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<td><a href="/api/offsets">Offsets for pagination, for more info click here</a></td>
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<td><strong>limit</strong></td>
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<td>Maximum number of results to return, <a href="/api/offsets">see pagination</a></td>
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<h3><a class="anchor" href="#result" id="result" name="result"><i class="anchor-icon"></i></a>Result</h3>
<p><a href="/type/messages.SearchResultsPositions">messages.SearchResultsPositions</a></p>
<h3><a class="anchor" href="#related-pages" id="related-pages" name="related-pages"><i class="anchor-icon"></i></a>Related pages</h3>
<h4><a class="anchor" href="#saved-messages" id="saved-messages" name="saved-messages"><i class="anchor-icon"></i></a><a href="/api/saved-messages">Saved messages</a></h4>
<p>The Saved Messages chat allows users to bookmark messages and media: it's a personal cloud storage for any messages or media you may want to send or forward there.</p>
<h4><a class="anchor" href="#inputmessagesfilterempty" id="inputmessagesfilterempty" name="inputmessagesfilterempty"><i class="anchor-icon"></i></a><a href="/constructor/inputMessagesFilterEmpty">inputMessagesFilterEmpty</a></h4>
<p>Filter is absent.</p>
<h4><a class="anchor" href="#inputmessagesfiltermymentions" id="inputmessagesfiltermymentions" name="inputmessagesfiltermymentions"><i class="anchor-icon"></i></a><a href="/constructor/inputMessagesFilterMyMentions">inputMessagesFilterMyMentions</a></h4>
<p>Return only messages where the current user was <a href="/api/mentions">mentioned</a>.</p>
<h4><a class="anchor" href="#pagination-in-the-api" id="pagination-in-the-api" name="pagination-in-the-api"><i class="anchor-icon"></i></a><a href="/api/offsets">Pagination in the API</a></h4>
<p>How to fetch results from large lists of objects.</p></div>
  
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