I'm Creating A Telegram Bot Using Python-Telegram-Bot
I Know That update.message.chat_id Returns The User's Chat ID, But I Need To Know How To Get User's Username Or First Name And/Or Last Name.
I've Found This On Telegram's Documentation But I Don't Know How To Use It ( I Tried bot.getChat(update.message.chat_id) But No Result)
All infomation about user (as username, id, first/last name and profile photos) available from telegram.User object. You can easily get it using telegram.Message
user = update.message.from_user
print('You talk with user {} and his user ID: {} '.format(user['username'], user['id']))
update.callback_query.from_user method can be used too. According to the nature of the interaction, a different method might be needed.You can use the json file and access information such as username, ID, etc. You can print this file yourself for information about the json file. See the example below.
# pip install python-telegram-bot==12.0.0
from telegram.ext import Updater
from telegram.ext import CommandHandler
updater = Updater('token')
def start(bot, update):
# print('json file update : ' ,update)
# print("json file bot : ', bot)
chat_id = update.message.chat_id
first_name = update.message.chat.first_name
last_name = update.message.chat.last_name
username = update.message.chat.username
print("chat_id : {} and firstname : {} lastname : {} username {}". format(chat_id, first_name, last_name , username))
bot.sendMessage(chat_id, 'text')
start_command = CommandHandler('start',start)
updater.dispatcher.add_handler(start_command)
updater.start_polling()
updater.idle()
Check your python version on your terminal or cmd by typing==> python --version If you are using Pycharm as your IDE then, do the following:
Then use the following code below to get the user information from the chat:
import telebot
from telegram.ext import *
from creds import API_KEY
shopflipper = telebot.TeleBot(API_KEY, parse_mode=None)
@shopflipper.message_handler(commands=["help", "hello"])
def send_help_message(msg):
#print(msg) --> this prints out all the information related to the chat
print(msg.from_user.username)
username = str(msg.from_user.username)
#print(username)
shopflipper.reply_to(msg, "Hello")
shopflipper.polling()
update.effective_user.id
This worked for me in any case, whether it's a callback from inlines or simple MessageHandler, the user id is same.
