CODEWITHSUNDEEP
python-3.xtelegramtelegram-botpython-telegram-bot
Kirti Dhwaj Singh
Kirti Dhwaj Singh

Reputation: 73

How to obtain username from UserID in Telegram?

I am using Python-Telegram-Bot API to create a bot. I get people's userID and username when they start the bot.
The userID doesn't change ever but the username can be changed by the user any time.
So I have usernames and UserIDs, and I receive another username - I wish to figure out whether that username is of someone already in the existing list or not.
Basically need to find out username from userID or if there's any other way I'm open to it.

Upvotes: 4

Views: 16662

Answers (1)

jeffffc
jeffffc

Reputation: 780

thats why you always process messages using the users' IDs

but to answer your question, you can either get the user's username directly using the user object, for example update.message.from_user.username or update.effective_user.username or use bot.getchat(chat_id) to get an user object of a certain chat (which could be an user's private chat

Upvotes: 6

Related Questions