Retrieves a variable number of events from the chat transcript.

GetChatEvents.js

/***************************************************
 * GetChatEvents                                   *
 * You can only retrieve a maximum of 500 messages *
 * from the transcript at one time, so you have to *
 * search recursively.                             *
 ***************************************************/

var events = [];
function GetChatEvents(count, callback, before) {
    if (count <= 0) return callback(events), false;
    var data = {
        fkey: fkey,
        msgCount: count > 500 ? 500 : count,
        mode: 'Messages',
    };
    if (before) data.before = before;
    $.ajax({
        type: 'POST',
        url: '/chats/' + room + '/events',
        data: data,
        success: function(response) {
            events.push(response.events);
            GetChatEvents(count - 500, callback, response.events[0].message_id);
        }
    });
};