How to receive messages in group chats using telegram bot api

Question

My telegram bot receives messages sent by user to my bot in private chats but not receives messages sent by users in group chats. Any options/api for getting group chat mess

Answer 1

By default A Bot will receive only messages addressed to it by any user directly via posting by /command@YourBot any message you send. After that it vill be available via getUpdates API call. In browser it will be:

https://api.telegram.org/botToken/getupdates

Find the related message in output JSON and grab chatId. It will allow you to answer back with:

https://api.telegram.org/botToken/sendmessage?chat_id=123456788&text=My Answer