When I get the history chat message with a bot I can't see the "hello" message ("What can this bot do?") in the return message_context. How can I get it?
message_context = client.send_message(bot_name, '/start')
for message in client.iter_messages(bot_name):
print("{}".format(bot_name))
You need to use GetFullUserRequest to fetch the bot_info attribute of the UserFull instance:
from telethon.sync import TelegramClient
from telethon import functions, types
with TelegramClient(name, api_id, api_hash) as client:
result = client(functions.users.GetFullUserRequest(bot_name))
bot_info = result.bot_info
print(bot_info)
print(bot_info.description)
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I'm trying to send a message to myself using a Telegram bot I have created, and I got the values from https://my.telegram.org as well as the BotFather.
import telebot
from telethon.sync import TelegramClient
def telegram_setup():
api_id = 12345678
api_hash = 'X'
token = 'X'
phone = '+111'
client = TelegramClient('session', api_id, api_hash)
client.connect()
if not client.is_user_authorized():
client.send_code_request(phone)
client.sign_in(phone, input('Enter the code: '))
return client
def send_message(client, message):
try:
entity = client.get_entity('username')
client.send_message(entity, message, parse_mode='html')
except Exception as e:
print(e)
client.disconnect()
if __name__ == "__main__":
client = telegram_setup()
message = "test"
send_message(client, message)
The first time I ran this, it sent me a message asking for a code which I supplied. Running it again caused "test" to appear under "Saved Messages" in Telegram, rather than coming from my bot.
Any idea what's causing this or how to resolve it?
Thanks.
EDIT: I realised I'm not using token anywhere, but I'm not sure where it goes.
The bot token is required in client.start() as bot_token (bot_token="token"), if what you do is a bot, your phone is not needed.
Edit: You made a userbot, not a bot.
I'd like to listen for a new incoming message in a Telegram channel.
I'm using the Telethon package and tried to run the example found in the docs.
from telethon import TelegramClient, events
api_id = "..."
api_hash = "..."
CHANNEL_ID = "..."
client = TelegramClient('anon', api_id, api_hash)
client.start()
#client.on(events.NewMessage(chats=CHANNEL_ID, outgoing=False))
async def my_event_handler(event):
print(event)
client.run_until_disconnected()
This code runs, asks me for my phone number and the login code. But after that, nothing happens.
When a message is sent to the channel, I don't see anything printed out.
Im trying to create a python script that can read all messages in a chat channel. I found this code, however, this will only read the message that I write myself or are directed at me. How do I change this code so it can read all the messages in the channel?
from telethon import TelegramClient, events
api_id = 242...
api_hash = '8a06ca620417c9964a058e0dc...'
bot_token = '1474729480:AAEhUPmVX_m...'
channelId = -36744...
client = TelegramClient('bot', api_id, api_hash).start(bot_token=bot_token)
client.start()
#client.on(events.NewMessage(chats = [channelId]))
async def my_event_handler(event):
text = event.text
print(text)
client.run_until_disconnected()
You may use iter_messages to get previous messages
I have this code
from telethon.sync import TelegramClient, events
with TelegramClient('name', api_id, api_hash) as client:
#client.on(events.NewMessage(pattern=pattern))
async def handler(event):
await event.reply("Here should be the Chat or Group name")
How to implement this?
if we are talking only about groups/channels
chat_from = event.chat if event.chat else (await event.get_chat()) # telegram MAY not send the chat enity
chat_title = chat_from.title
Else (If we want to get the full name of chat entities, including Users):
from telethon import utils
chat_from = event.chat if event.chat else (await event.get_chat()) # telegram MAY not send the chat enity
chat_title = utils.get_display_name(chat_from)
get_display_name() actually gets a name that you would see. Works for types User, Channel, Chat
That method shall not have await
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.
dialogs = client(get_dialogs)
for chat in dialogs.chats:
getmessage = client.get_messages(chat.id, limit=400)
for message in getmessage:
print(message.message)
I've searched the telethon documentation but most answers were in response to the old get_message_history.
When I'm trying with the following chat.id = 1097988869 (news.bitcoin.com) I'm getting an error below (for groups the chat.id works fine):
PeerIdInvalidError: An invalid Peer was used. Make sure to pass the right peer type
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.
update :
in the new version of Telethon, #Lonami answer is best and use it.
############################################################
you can use this code for get messages :
client = TelegramClient('session_name',
api_id,
api_hash,
update_workers=1,
spawn_read_thread=False)
assert client.connect()
if not client.is_user_authorized():
client.send_code_request(phone_number)
me = client.sign_in(phone_number, input('Enter code: '))
channel_username='tehrandb' # your channel
channel_entity=client.get_entity(channel_username)
posts = client(GetHistoryRequest(
peer=channel_entity,
limit=100,
offset_date=None,
offset_id=0,
max_id=0,
min_id=0,
add_offset=0,
hash=0))
# messages stored in `posts.messages`
that work for me!
api_hash from https://my.telegram.org, under API Development.
from telethon import TelegramClient, events, sync
api_id = 'your api_id'
api_hash = 'your api_hash'
client = TelegramClient('session_name', api_id, api_hash)
client.start()
channel_username = 'username'# your channel
for message in client.get_messages(channel_username, limit=10):
print(message.message)