From da729069c2745f6b7d696f1bc3e5e7305a7b04c2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: eternnoir <eternnoir@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 5 Sep 2015 18:10:11 +0800
Subject: [PATCH] Add get_updates method.

---
 telebot/__init__.py | 14 ++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+)

diff --git a/telebot/__init__.py b/telebot/__init__.py
index 5af3100..067914f 100644
--- a/telebot/__init__.py
+++ b/telebot/__init__.py
@@ -59,6 +59,20 @@ class TeleBot:
         if self.__create_threads:
             self.worker_pool = util.ThreadPool(num_threads)
 
+    def get_Updates(self, offset=None,limit=None, timeout=20):
+        """
+        Use this method to receive incoming updates using long polling (wiki). An Array of Update objects is returned.
+        :param offset: Integer. Identifier of the first update to be returned.
+        :param limit: Integer. Limits the number of updates to be retrieved.
+        :param timeout: Integer. Timeout in seconds for long polling.
+        :return: array of Updates
+        """
+        json_updates = apihelper.get_updates(self.token, offset, limit, timeout)
+        ret = []
+        for ju in json_updates:
+            ret.append(types.Update.de_json(ju))
+        return ret
+
     def get_update(self):
         """
         Retrieves any updates from the Telegram API.