telegram-bot

Talk to @botfather and disable the privacy mode.

Talk to @botfather and disable the privacy mode.

The message updates you receive via getUpdates or your webhook will contain the chat ID for the specific message. It will be contained under the message.chat.id key. This seems like the only way you are able to retrieve the chat ID. So if you want to write something where the bot initiates the conversation you … Read more

I found the way to write in private channels. You should convert it to public with some @channelName Send a message to this channel through the Bot API: https://api.telegram.org/bot111:222/sendMessage?chat_id=@channelName&text=123 As the response, you will get information with chat_id of your channel. { “ok” : true, “result” : { “chat” : { **”id” : -1001005582487,** “title” … Read more