How to get chat history of Telegram using node-telegram-bot?

Question

I am developing a telegram chatbot using node-telegram-bot in Node.js that requires getting the previous messages or chat history of user and bot.

I tried using bot.getChat(chatId) method but it returns the following response

{
  id: ,
  first_name: 'R',
  last_name: 'S',
  type: 'private',
  has_private_forwards: true
}

index.js

const TelegramBot = require('node-telegram-bot-api');
require('dotenv').config();
const TOKEN = process.env.TOKEN;
const bot = new TelegramBot(TOKEN, { polling: true });

let chat = await bot.getChat(chatid)
console.log(chat)

I didn't find anything else that will help me retrieve the chat logs. I created a telegram application to use Telegram Core API but it is very complicated to understand to implement the bot using this.

Any advice or ideas to retrieve the chat logs?