How can I get messages from a Telegram channel with the Telegram API

Question

How can I access to a Telegram channel messages with a bot registered as channel admin?

I am trying to get all the messages from Telegram channel and display them in an ASP.NET webpage (c#)

I am able to get updates when new message sent directly to the bot:

var json = wc.DownloadString(" https://api.telegram.org/bot<token>/getUpdates");

but its not working for the channel.

Answer 1

unfortunately it's not possible yet.(they may come up with something in future) as admin you can just send messages to channel.

Answer 2

The only way until now is as follows:

1. Your bot be added to the channel by its administrator.
2. You set the bot's privacy to disabled.

Step 1 helps your bot to join the channel so it see the messages.

Step 2 makes your bot listening to all messages of the channel.