Telegram Bot - how to get a group chat id?

Question

I\'ve been using telegram_bot, and trying to get groupChat id to send notifications to group chat, but don\'t know which methods I have to use for it.

For getting ch

Answer 1

After mid-2018:
1:) Invite @getidsbot or @RawDataBot to your group and get your group id from the chat id field.

Message
 ├ message_id: 338
 ├ from
 ┊  ├ id: *****
 ┊  ├ is_bot: false
 ┊  ├ first_name: 사이드
 ┊  ├ username: ******
 ┊  └ language_code: en
 ├ chat
 ┊  ├ id: -1001118554477    // This is Your Group id
 ┊  ├ title: Test Group
 ┊  └ type: supergroup
 ├ date: 1544948900
 └ text: A

2:) use an unofficial Messenger like Plus Messenger and see your group id in group/channel info.

Before mid-2018: (don't Use)
1: Goto (https://web.telegram.org)
2: Goto your Gorup and Find your link of Gorup(https://web.telegram.org/#/im?p=g154513121)
3: Copy That number after g and put a (-) Before That -154513121
4: Send Your Message to Gorup bot.sendMessage(-154513121, "Hi")
I Tested Now and Work like a Charm

Answer 2

You can get Chat ID in this way.

On private chat with your bot, send a random message. You will search this message later.

Get Your API-token from bot_father : XXXXXXXXX:YYYYYYY-YYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY_YY

Then, on your browser make a request with that url :

https://api.telegram.org/botXXXXXXXXX:YYYYYYY-YYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY_YY/getUpdates

The request returns a json response, in json text search your random message and get chat id in that object.

Answer 3

create a bot, or if already created set as follows:

has access to messages

apparently, regardless of how old/new the Telegram group is:

1. add a bot to the group
2. remove bot from the group

3. add bot again to the group

4. create a script file and run getUpdates method example:

    var vApiTokenTelegram = "1234567890:???>yg5GeL5PuItAOEhvdcPPELAOCCy3jBo"; // @?????Bot API token
    var vUrlTelegram = "https://api.telegram.org/bot" + vApiTokenTelegram;

    function getUpdates() {
        var response = UrlFetchApp.fetch(vUrlTelegram + "/getUpdates");
        console.log(response.getContentText());
    }

5. function shall log to the console the following:

[20-04-21 00:46:11:130 PDT] {"ok":true,"result":[{"update_id":81329501,
"message":{"message_id":975,"from":{"id":962548471,"is_bot":false,"first_name":"Trajano","last_name":"Roberto","username":"TrajanoRoberto","language_code":"en"},"chat":{"id":-1001202656383,"title":"R\u00e1dioRN - A voz da na\u00e7\u00e3o!","type":"supergroup"},"date":1587454914,"left_chat_participant":{"id":1215098445,"is_bot":true,"first_name":"MediaFlamengoRawBot","username":"MediaFlamengoRawBot"},"left_chat_member":{"id":1215098445,"is_bot":true,"first_name":"MediaFlamengoRawBot","username":"MediaFlamengoRawBot"}}},{"update_id":81329502,
"message":{"message_id":976,"from":{"id":962548471,"is_bot":false,"first_name":"Trajano","last_name":"Roberto","username":"TrajanoRoberto","language_code":"en"},"chat":{"id":-1001202656383,"title":"R\u00e1dioRN - A voz da na\u00e7\u00e3o!","type":"supergroup"},"date":1587454932,"new_chat_participant":{"id":1215098445,"is_bot":true,"first_name":"MediaFlamengoRawBot","username":"MediaFlamengoRawBot"},"new_chat_member":{"id":1215098445,"is_bot":true,"first_name":"MediaFlamengoRawBot","username":"MediaFlamengoRawBot"},"new_chat_members":[{"id":1215098445,"is_bot":true,"first_name":"MediaFlamengoRawBot","username":"MediaFlamengoRawBot"}]}}]}

6. Telegram group chat_id can be extracted from above message "chat":{"id":-1001202656383,"title"

Hope This Helps (HTH)

Answer 4

IMHO the best way to do this is using TeleThon, but given that the answer by apadana is outdated beyond repair, I will write the working solution here:

import os
import sys
from telethon import TelegramClient
from telethon.utils import get_display_name

import nest_asyncio
nest_asyncio.apply()

session_name = "<session_name>"
api_id = <api_id>
api_hash = "<api_hash>"
dialog_count = 10 # you may change this

if f"{session_name}.session" in os.listdir():
    os.remove(f"{session_name}.session")

client = TelegramClient(session_name, api_id, api_hash)

async def main():
    dialogs = await client.get_dialogs(dialog_count)
    for dialog in dialogs:
        print(get_display_name(dialog.entity), dialog.entity.id)

async with client:
    client.loop.run_until_complete(main())

this snippet will give you the first 10 chats in your Telegram.

Assumptions:

• you have telethon and nest_asyncio installed
• you have api_id and api_hash from my.telegram.org

Answer 5

In order to get the group chat id, do as follows:

1. Add the Telegram BOT to the group.

2. Get the list of updates for your BOT:

   https://api.telegram.org/bot<YourBOTToken>/getUpdates
   

   Ex:

   https://api.telegram.org/bot123456789:jbd78sadvbdy63d37gda37bd8/getUpdates
   

3. Look for the "chat" object:

{"update_id":8393,"message":{"message_id":3,"from":{"id":7474,"first_name":"AAA"},"chat":{"id":,"title":""},"date":25497,"new_chat_participant":{"id":71,"first_name":"NAME","username":"YOUR_BOT_NAME"}}}

This is a sample of the response when you add your BOT into a group.

4. Use the "id" of the "chat" object to send your messages.

Answer 6

function doPost(e) {
    var contents = JSON.parse(e.postData.contents);
    //  GmailApp.sendEmail(Session.getEffectiveUser().getEmail(), "Telegram Bot Update",     JSON.stringify(contents, null, 4));
    var chat_id = contents.message.chat.id;
    var text = contents.message.text;
    var name = contents.message.from.first_name + " " +  contents.message.from.last_name;
    var sResponse = telegramBotMachine( chat_id, text, name );
}