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Get Chat Messages

Read messages from a 1:1 Teams chat by contact name. Finds the person, opens their chat, and returns every currently-loaded message with sender, ISO timestamp and text. Needs no admin or export permission.

Input

contactName required

Display name of the person whose 1:1 chat to open, as it appears in Teams (e.g. "April Deere").

Output

messages required
contactName required

FAQ

Read messages from a 1:1 Teams chat by contact name. Finds the person, opens their chat, and returns every currently-loaded message with sender, ISO timestamp and text. Needs no admin or export permission.
Required: contactName.
It returns messages, contactName.
Yes. It acts as you on teams.microsoft.com: on your own Chrome it reuses your session, and on a Reduck-hosted browser it loads the teams.microsoft.com cookies saved by the Reduck extension.
It only reads. It looks things up on teams.microsoft.com and changes nothing there.
Ask an AI agent connected to Reduck to run reduck/teams.microsoft.com/get_chat_messages, or run it from a terminal with the Reduck CLI: npx @reduck-ai/cli@latest run --script reduck/teams.microsoft.com/get_chat_messages
It is part of Reduck's official curated catalogue.

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