How To Limit Access To A Telegram Bot

Question

When I send a message to my Telegram Bot, it responses with no problems.

I wanna limit the access such that me and only me can send message to it.

How can I

Answer 1

Start a conversation with your bot, and send it a message. This will queue up an updates for the bot containing the message and the chat ID for your conversation.

To view recent updates, you call the getUpdates method. This is done by making a HTTP GET request to the URL https://api.telegram.org/bot$TOKEN/getUpdates Where $TOKEN is the token provided by the BotFather. Something like:

"chat":{
        "id":12345,
        "first_name":"Bob",
        "last_name":"Jones",
        "username":"bjones",
        "type":"private"},
      "date":1452933785,
      "text":"Hi there, bot!"}}]}

Once you determined your chat id you can write a piece of code in your bot like:

id_a = [111111,2222222,3333333,4444444,5555555]

    def handle(msg):
        chat_id = msg['chat']['id']
        command = msg['text']
        sender = msg['from']['id']
     if sender in id_a:
    [...]
     else:
           bot.sendMessage(chat_id, 'Forbidden access!')
           bot.sendMessage(chat_id, sender)