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 chat id I use to message chat id when the bot participated in the chat but which I have to use for getting group chat id can t find

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IMHO the best way to do this is using TeleThon, but given that the answer by apadana is outdated beyond repair, I will write the working solution here: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

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Using python and telethon it s very easy to get chat id  This solution is best for those who work with telegram API    If you don t have telethon  run this    pip install telethon   If you don t have a registered app with telegram  register one   The link is this  https   my telegram org   Then run the following code    from telethon import InteractiveTelegramClient from telethon utils tl utils import get display name  client   InteractiveTelegramClient  session id    YOUR PHONE NUMBER   api id 1234YOURAPI ID  api hash  YOUR API HASH    dialog count   10 dialogs  entities   client get dialogs dialog count  for i  entity in enumerate entities                       i    1    1-based index                     print          id      format i  get display name entity   entity id     You may want to send a message to your group so the group show up in top of the list

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create a bot  or if already created set as follows  has access to messages apparently  regardless of how old new the Telegram group is   add a bot to the group  remove bot from the group  add bot again to the group  create a script file and run getUpdates method example        var vApiTokenTelegram    quot 1234567890     gt yg5GeL5PuItAOEhvdcPPELAOCCy3jBo quot            Bot API token     var vUrlTelegram    quot https   api telegram org bot quot    vApiTokenTelegram       function getUpdates             var response   UrlFetchApp fetch vUrlTelegram    quot  getUpdates quot            console log response getContentText             function shall log to the console the following    20-04-21 00 46 11 130 PDT    quot ok quot  true  quot result quot     quot update id quot  81329501   quot message quot    quot message id quot  975  quot from quot    quot id quot  962548471  quot is bot quot  false  quot first name quot   quot Trajano quot   quot last name quot   quot Roberto quot   quot username quot   quot TrajanoRoberto quot   quot language code quot   quot en quot    quot chat quot    quot id quot  -1001202656383  quot title quot   quot R u00e1dioRN - A voz da na u00e7 u00e3o  quot   quot type quot   quot supergroup quot    quot date quot  1587454914  quot left chat participant quot    quot id quot  1215098445  quot is bot quot  true  quot first name quot   quot MediaFlamengoRawBot quot   quot username quot   quot MediaFlamengoRawBot quot    quot left chat member quot    quot id quot  1215098445  quot is bot quot  true  quot first name quot   quot MediaFlamengoRawBot quot   quot username quot   quot MediaFlamengoRawBot quot       quot update id quot  81329502   quot message quot    quot message id quot  976  quot from quot    quot id quot  962548471  quot is bot quot  false  quot first name quot   quot Trajano quot   quot last name quot   quot Roberto quot   quot username quot   quot TrajanoRoberto quot   quot language code quot   quot en quot    quot chat quot    quot id quot  -1001202656383  quot title quot   quot R u00e1dioRN - A voz da na u00e7 u00e3o  quot   quot type quot   quot supergroup quot    quot date quot  1587454932  quot new chat participant quot    quot id quot  1215098445  quot is bot quot  true  quot first name quot   quot MediaFlamengoRawBot quot   quot username quot   quot MediaFlamengoRawBot quot    quot new chat member quot    quot id quot  1215098445  quot is bot quot  true  quot first name quot   quot MediaFlamengoRawBot quot   quot username quot   quot MediaFlamengoRawBot quot    quot new chat members quot     quot id quot  1215098445  quot is bot quot  true  quot first name quot   quot MediaFlamengoRawBot quot   quot username quot   quot MediaFlamengoRawBot quot          Telegram group chat id can be extracted from above message  quot chat quot    quot id quot  -1001202656383  quot title quot

User · Answer

If you are implementing your bot  keep stored a group name - gt  id table  and ask it with a command  Then you can also send per name

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In order to get the group chat id  do as follows    Add the Telegram BOT to the group  Get the list of updates for your BOT   https   api telegram org bot lt YourBOTToken gt  getUpdates   Ex   https   api telegram org bot123456789 jbd78sadvbdy63d37gda37bd8 getUpdates  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    Use the  id  of the  chat  object to send your messages

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Here is the sequence that worked for me after struggling for several hours    Assume the bot name is my bot    1- Add the bot to the group   Go to the group  click on group name  click on Add members  in the searchbox search for your bot like this   my bot  select your bot and click add    2- Send a dummy message to the bot  You can use this example   my id  my bot  I tried a few messages  not all the messages work  The example above works fine  Maybe the message should start with     3- Go to following url  https   api telegram org botXXX YYYY getUpdates replace XXX YYYY with your bot token  4- Look for  chat    id  -zzzzzzzzzz  -zzzzzzzzzz is your chat id  with the negative sign     5- Testing  You can test sending a message to the group with a curl   curl -X POST  https   api telegram org botXXX YYYY sendMessage  -d  chat id -zzzzzzzzzz amp text my sample text    If you miss step 2  there would be no update for the group you are looking for  Also if there are multiple groups  you can look for the group name in the response   title   group name      Hope this helps

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I tested now 4h but it dont work 2021 with the group-chat-id  All the time the error   quot ok quot  true  quot result quot      But now i found a Solution  1   install the  quot Plus Messenger quot   https   play google com store apps details id org telegram plus  2   go in the Group   gt  Tap now on the  quot Group-Name quot  in the Head   gt  Double Tap now on the Headline from the Group  A Info is comming  ID123456789 is copy in the clipboard 3   go in the Group an paste the clipboard text  It  s you Groud-ID 4   looks like 1068773197  which is -1001068773197 for bots  with -100 prefix     btw  you see the user-id too  on your profil  5   Now go to the Webbrowser an send this line  Test Message   https   api telegram org botAPITOKENNUMBER APITOKENKEYHERE sendmessage chat id -100GROUPNUMBER amp text test  Edit the API Token and the Group-ID

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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

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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            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   quot Hi quot   I Tested Now and Work like a Charm

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My second Solution for the error   quot ok quot  true  quot result quot       Go in your Telegram Group Add new User  Invite  Search for  quot getidsbot quot    gt   getidsbot Message   start getidsbot Now you see the ID  looks like 1068773197  which is -1001068773197 for bots  with -100 prefix     Kick the bot from the Group  Now go to the Webbrowser an send this line  Test Message    https   api telegram org botAPITOKENNUMBER APITOKENKEYHERE sendmessage chat id -100GROUPNUMBER text test Edit the API Token and the Group-ID

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As of March 2020  simply    Invite  RawDataBot to your group    Upon joining it will output a JSON file where your chat id will be located at message chat id    message          chat              id   -210987654           title                 type    group                                 Be sure to kick  RawDataBot from your group afterwards

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You can retrieve the group ID the same way  It appears in the message body as message chat id and it s usually a negative number  where normal chats are positive   Group IDs and Chat IDs can only be retrieved from a received message  there are no calls available to retrieve active groups etc  You have to remember the group ID when you receive the message and store it in cache or something similar

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