How to obtain the chat id of a private Telegram channel

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I use curl to update my public channels  This kind of syntax   curl -X POST  https   api telegram org bot144377327 AAGqdElkZ-77zsPRoAXXXXXXXXXX sendMessage  -d  chat id  MyChannel amp text my sample text    But what s the chat id of a private channel  It s not the one you have in the private invite   Because now we can pass a channel username  in the format  channelusername  in the place of chat id in all methods  and instead of from chat id in forwardMessage   But what s the   channelusername of a private channel that I administer

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update  2   Found another one easiest way   Just send to  username to id bot bot your invite link to your private channel  it will return it s ID  Simplest level   maximum     ps  I am not a an owner of this bot  ps2  To be sure in security  just revoke your old invitation link if it is matter for you after bot using  Original post   Make channel public cannot be done by user with exist at least 5 public groups channels  so   problem not solved  Yes  you can revoke one of them  but for now  we cannot retrieve chat id other way   Did anybody found solution for that case  update I found crazy solution    login under your account at web version of Telegram   https   web telegram org Find your channel  See to your url  it should be like https   web telegram org   im p c  1055587116   11052224402541910257 Grab  quot 1055587116 quot  from it  and add  quot -100 quot  as a prefix   So    your channel id will be  quot -1001055587116 quot   Magic happen    Solution found here   https   github com GabrielRF telegram-id web-channel-id

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I found the way to write in private channels    You should convert it to public with some  channelName Send message to this channel through Bot API  https   api telegram org bot111 222 sendMessage chat id  channelName amp text 123 As response you will get info with chat id of your channel        ok    true     result           chat             id    -1001005582487         title     Test Private Channel          type     channel              date    1448245538       message id    7       text     123ds        Now you can convert Channel back to private  by deleting channel s link  and send message directly to this chat id  -1001005582487   https   api telegram org bot111 222 sendMessage chat id -1001005582487 amp text 123

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You Can Too Do This   Step 1 Convert Your Private Channel To Public Channel  Step 2 Set The ChannelName For This Channel  Step 3 then you Can change this Channel to Private  Step 4 Now Sending Your Message Using  ChannelName That you Set In Step 3   note For Step 1 You Can Change One of Your Public Channel To Private For a short time

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I use Telegram Bot and got the ID the following way   Add the bot to the channel Run the bot Write something into the channel  eg   authenticate or foo   Telegram Bot  private static async Task Main         var botClient   new TelegramBotClient  quot key quot        botClient OnUpdate    BotClientOnOnUpdate      Console ReadKey       private static async void BotClientOnOnUpdate object  sender  UpdateEventArgs e        var id   e Update ChannelPost Chat Id      await botClient SendTextMessageAsync new ChatId id     quot Hello World  Channel ID is  id  quot       Plain API  This translates to the getUpdates method in the plain API  which has an array of Update which then contains channel post chat id

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No need to convert the channel to public then make it private     find the id of your private channel   There are numerous methods to do this  for example see this SO answer  curl -X POST  https   api telegram org botxxxxxx yyyyyyyyyyy sendMessage  -d  chat id -100CHAT ID amp text my sample text   replace xxxxxx yyyyyyyyyyy with your bot id  and replace CHAT ID with the channel id found in step 1  So if channel id is 1234 it would be chat id -1001234      All done

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The easiest way is to invite  get id bot in your chat and then type   my id  get id bot  Inside your chat

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Found the solution for TelegramBotApi for python  Maybe will work for other languages  I just add my bot to private channel and then do this   your bot name hi  In the console I get response with all info that I need

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Open the private channel  then    on web client    look at the URL in your browser  if it s for example https   web telegram org   im p c1192292378 2674311763110923980 then 1192292378 is the channel ID  on mobile and desktop    copy the link of any message of the channel  if it s for example https   t me c 1192292378 31 then 1192292378 is the channel ID  bonus  31 is the message ID   on Plus Messenger for Android    open the infos of the channel  the channel ID appears above  right under its name      WARNING be sure to add -100 prefix when using Telegram Bot API    if the channel ID is for example 1192292378 then you should use -1001192292378

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The option that I do is by using the popular Plus Messenger on Android  The play store link is  https   play google com store apps details id org telegram plus amp hl en  You can click on the Channel and in Channel info below the group name  you can find Channel Id   Supergroup and Channel Ids will looks like 1068773197 on plus messenger  For your usage on API  you can prefix -100 which would make it -1001068773197

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NEEDED ANSWER   You should add  amp  make your BOT as administrator of the PRIVATE channel  otherwise chat not found error happens

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Open Telegram Web at https   web telegram org search you private channel Look at the URL  It s like  https   web telegram org   im p cXXXXXXXXXX 578236787445474833   The id of your private channel is the XXXXXX part  between the  p c  and the underscore   To use it  just add  -100  in front of it  So if  XXXXXX  is  4785444554  your private channel id id  -1004785444554

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For now you can write an invite link to bot  username to id bot and you will get the id   example    also works with public chats  channels and even users

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