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abhijeet Mandal
abhijeet Mandal

Reputation: 21

How to get specific channel chat history using telegram bot api?

I am using telegram bot api to get the chat history of a channel https://api.telegram.org/botXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX/getupdates

my bot attached to the many channels and my query is that how to get chat history of any specific channel which is using my bot.

but when I am using getupdates method it shows all the message with all channel.

my query is how to get the solution using telegram bot API?

just like when we need to send a message to any specific channel using the used the https://api.telegram.org/botxxxxxxxxxxxx/sendMessage?chat_id=@channel id&text=message

i need a solution where I can send channel id and get the specific channel chat history using telegram bot API

Upvotes: 2

Views: 19817

Answers (1)

Mohamed Sohail
Mohamed Sohail

Reputation: 1867

my bot attached to the many channels and my query is that how to get chat history of any specific channel which is using my bot

You cannot get the chat history of a channel using the bot API. However you can use the core API (tdlib e.t.c) to get the chat history. Alternatively you can try and scrape from the posts widget, but that is going to be too tedious.

but when I am using getupdates method it shows all the message with all channel.

You can manually filter out the channels since the ID is always in the Update object. I would suggest you use a library for this since it would be easier to implement the logic.

Upvotes: 4

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