How do I add my bot to a channel

Question

I m using my bot to tell important news  but when I using sendMessage to the channel I m receiving the following error     ok  false  error code  403  description   Error  Forbidden  bot is not a participant of the channel     In the Change Log they mention it s not possible via the client to send a message to a channel  but then what is the other way to do that    So  the question is  how to add my bot to the channel

User · Answer

This is how I ve added a bot to my channel and set up notifications    Make sure the channel is public  you can set it private later  Add administrators   Type the bot username and make it administrator Your bot will join your channel set a channel id by setting the channel url like    telegram me whateverIWantAndAvailable  the channel id will be  whateverIWantAndAvailable  Now set up your bot to send notifications by pusshing the messages here   https   api telegram org botTOKENOFTHEBOT sendMessage chat id  whateverIWantAndAvailable amp text Test  the message which bot will notify is  Test  I strongly suggest an urlencode of the message like  https   api telegram org botTOKENOFTHEBOT sendMessage chat id  whateverIWantAndAvailable amp text Testing 20if 20this 20works  in php you can use urlencode  Test if this works    in js you can encodeURIComponent  Test if this works     I hope it helps

User · Answer

Now all clients allow to do it  but it s not pretty simple  In any Telegram client      Open Channel info  in app title  Choose Administrators Add Administrator There will be no bots in contact list  so you need to search for it  Enter your bot s username   Clicking on it you make it as administrator

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As of now    Only the creator of the channel can add a bot   Other administrators can t add bots to channels   Channel can be public or private  doesn t matter  bots can be added only as admins  not members      To add the bot to your channel     click on the channel name   click on admins   click on Add Admin   search for your bot like  your bot name  and click add          In some platforms like mac native telegram client it may look like that you can add bot as a member  but at the end it won t work     the bot doesn t need to be in your contact list

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Are you using the right chat id and including your bot s token after  bot  in the address   api telegram org bottoken sendMessage   This page explains a few things about sending  down in  sendMessage  section  - basic stuff  but I often forget the basics   To quote      In order to use the sendMessage method we need to use the proper   chat id       First things first let s send the  start command to our bot via a   Telegram client       After sent this command let s perform a getUpdates commands    curl -s   -X POST   https   api telegram org bot lt token gt  getUpdates     jq        The response will be like the following        result                    message              text     start             date   1435176541            chat                 username    yourusername               first name    yourfirstname               id   65535                       from                 username    yourusername               first name    yourfirstname               id   65535                       message id   1                   update id   714636917                 ok   true        We are interested in the property result message 0  chat id  save   this information elsewhere       Please note that this is only an example  you may want to set up some   automatism to handle those informations Now how we can send a message     It s simple let s check out this snippet    curl -s   -X POST   https   api telegram org bot lt token gt  sendMessage   -d text  A message from your bot    -d chat id 65535     jq        Where chat id is the piece of information saved before    I hope that helps

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