telegram-bot

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? 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

I want to create custom keyboard in telegram.bot For example: We have an array of string that gets from the database or other recurses how we can push data from the array to InlineKeyboardMarkup in for loop or function //array of Button string[] ButtonItem= new string[] { "one", "two", "three", "Four" }; //function or solution to create keyboard like this var keyboard = new InlineKeyboardMarkup(new[] { new[] { new InlineKeyboardButton("one"), new InlineKeyboardButton("two"), }, new[] { new InlineKeyboardButton("three"), new InlineKeyboardButton("Four"), } }); You could use a separate function

I use curl to update my public channels. This kind of syntax: >curl -X POST "https://api.telegram.org/bot144377327:AAGqdElkZ-77zsPRoAXXXXXXXXXX/sendMessage" -d "chat_id=@MyChannel&text=my sample text" But what's the chat_id of a private channel? It's not the one you have in the private invite. Because now we can pass a channel username (in the format @channelusername) in the place of chat_id in all methods (and instead of from_chat_id in forwardMessage). But what's the @channelusername of a private channel that I administer? I found the way to write in private channels. You should convert it

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/ Maverick_Java 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<YourBOTToken>/getUpdates Ex: https://api.telegram.org/bot123456789:jbd78sadvbdy63d37gda37bd8/getUpdates Look for the "chat" object: {

How to obtain user chat_id in Telegram bot API? The documentation says: Integer | Unique identifier for the message recipient — User or GroupChat id The message updates you receive via getUpdates or your webhook will contain the chat ID for the specific message. It will be contained under the message.chat.id key. This seems like the only way you are able to retrieve the chat ID. So if you want to write something where the bot initiates the conversation you will probably have to store the chat ID in relation to the user in some sort of key->value store like MemCache or Redis. I believe their