I want to create a bot to post my texts to a channel... Can anyone help me with the code?
this is the code that I tried :
import telegram
token = "5002307835:AAGOu4f******************"
chat_id = "1382******"
bot = telegram.Bot(token)
def send_message(message):
return bot.send_message(chat_id,message)
send_message("HI")
but i got this error : telegram.error.BadRequest: Chat not found
also i tried : chat_id = "-1382******" and chat_id = -1382****** and chat_id = 1382******
use it without " "
e.g.
import telegram
chat_id = 1382******
token = "TOKEN"
if not work, try it with - and no "", it will works!
e.g.
import telegram
chat_id = -1382******
token = "TOKEN"
Channels ids usually starts with -100, so
chat_id = -1001382******
Put it as integer
You can also get the channel id sending a message in the channel as normal user and handling it with the bot. In message.chat.id you will see the correct id Or just forward a channel message to the bot https://t.me/nguLikJSONbot
First of all, you should be administrator of a channel and then send message to it. For send text, file or photo with caption to a specific user, the target user should be member of your bot and then change chat_id to user id in telegram.
import telegram
token = "5002307835:AAGOu4f******************"
# "@{0}".format("botfather") ==> @botfather
chat_id = "@{0}".format("your_channel_name")
# For sending message to a specific user
# chat_id = 18558...
bot = telegram.Bot(token)
def send_message(message):
return bot.send_message(chat_id, message)
your_msg = "Hello"
send_message(your_msg)
python-telegram-botit seems you're using old formatting, see