Telegram get chat messages /posts - python Telethon

Question

I am using Telethon and Python 3.6xx

Been able to retreive message from groups, no problem but when it comes to channels I am stuck.

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Answer 1

The accepted answer is good, but recent versions of Telethon let you achieve the same more easily. This will iterate over all messages in chat (for this example we use telethon.sync to avoid typing out async):

from telethon.sync import TelegramClient

with TelegramClient(name, api_id, api_hash) as client:
    for message in client.iter_messages(chat):
        print(message.sender_id, ':', message.text)

Where the variables should be obvious, for example (note these API values won't work, you need your own):

name = 'anon'
api_id = 123
api_hash = 'abcdefgh'
chat = 'me'

More examples using async are available in client.iter_messages documentation.