Telegram Bot - how to get a group chat id?

Question

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.

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Answer 1

You can retrieve the group ID the same way. It appears in the message body as message.chat.id and it's usually a negative number, where normal chats are positive.

Group IDs and Chat IDs can only be retrieved from a received message, there are no calls available to retrieve active groups etc. You have to remember the group ID when you receive the message and store it in cache or something similar.