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I want to create a bot that kicks users from group based on certain condition (doesn't matter). My problem is - I found function that kicks users ( Bot.ban_chat_member() from python-telegram-bot ), but it kicks them based on their IDs. How to obtain someone's ID, when the only data I have is their username?

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Tried methods from python-telegram-bot library

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How to find the user depends on how you are getting the username in the first place.

For example, if you are doing it based on a message the banned user sent, Message.from_user exposes the User object of the sender, giving you access to the user id.

Alternatively, if you have a command like /ban @username with the user tagged, the Message.entities returns you a list of MessageEntitys, which you can iterate through to find the tagged user's entity. See the documentation for Message.entities and MessageEntity.

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