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Expand Up @@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ Add Madrid as a dependency to your `Package.swift`:

```swift
dependencies: [
.package(url: "https://github.com/mattt/Madrid.git", from: "0.2.0")
.package(url: "https://github.com/mattt/Madrid.git", from: "0.4.0")
]
```

Expand Down Expand Up @@ -54,25 +54,34 @@ import iMessage
// Create a database (uses `~/Library/Messages/chat.db` by default)
let db = try iMessage.Database()

// Fetch recent messages
let recentMessages = try db.fetchMessages(limit: 10)

// Fetch messages from select individuals in time range
let pastWeek = Date.now.addingTimeInterval(-7*24*60*60)..<Date.now

let aliases = [
"johnny.appleseed@mac.com",
"+18002752273"
]
let handles = try db.fetchParticipant(matching: aliases)

for message in try db.fetchMessages(with: Set(handles), in: pastWeek) {
// Build a predicate-style request
let pastWeek = Date.now.addingTimeInterval(-7 * 24 * 60 * 60) ..< Date.now
let request = FetchRequest<Message>(
predicate: .and([
.participantHandles([
"johnny.appleseed@mac.com",
"+18002752273",
]),
.dateRange(pastWeek),
]),
sortDescriptors: [.date(.descending)],
limit: 10
)

// Execute request
for message in try db.fetch(request) {
print("From: \(message.sender)")
print("Content: \(message.content)")
print("Sent at: \(message.timestamp)")
print("Content: \(message.text)")
print("Sent at: \(message.date)")
}
```

> [!TIP]
> Legacy convenience APIs
> (`fetchMessages(for:with:in:limit:)`, `fetchChats(with:in:limit:)`)
> are still available,
> but are deprecated in favor of `fetch(_:)`.

### Decoding TypedStream Data

```swift
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