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MinistrBob
MinistrBob

Reputation: 23

Telegram API doesn't work with username - 400. Bad Request: chat not found

I received data about myself through API method /getMe

    {'ok': True, 'result': {'id': 32484XXXX, 'first_name': 'Name', 'last_name': 'NameN', 'username': '@myname',
                            'type': 'private',
    ...

Then I try to send from bot to myself a message with telegram ID and with telegram username. With ID, everything works fine, but with username it doesn’t work. What am I doing wrong? How do I send messages with username?

    import requests
    
    telegram_bot_url = 'https://api.telegram.org/botXXXXXXXX:AAHfPgXkYrqPSakpsxB81UTsYwfmaq9dryY/'
    params_name = {'chat_id': '@myname', 'text': 'test777'}
    params_id = {'chat_id': 32484XXXX, 'text': 'test777'}
    print("ID")
    response = requests.post(telegram_bot_url + 'sendMessage', data=params_id)
    print(response.json())
    print("USERNAME")
    response = requests.post(telegram_bot_url + 'sendMessage', data=params_name)
    print(response.json())

and response

ID
{'ok': True, 'result': {'message_id': 15, 'from': {'id': 121079XXXX, 'is_bot': True, 'first_name': 'RRRR', 'username': 'RRRR'}, 'chat': {'id': 32484XXXX, 'first_name': 'Name', 'last_name': 'NameN', 'username': 'myname', 'type': 'private'}, 'date': 1592754152, 'text': 'test777'}}
USERNAME
{'ok': False, 'error_code': 400, 'description': 'Bad Request: chat not found'}

Upvotes: 2

Views: 8212

Answers (1)

Gauthamram Ravichandran
Gauthamram Ravichandran

Reputation: 486

If you look closely on the BotAPI docs,

Unique identifier for the target chat or username of the target channel (in the format @channelusername)

Unique identifier -> which is the chat id (can be used for any type of chats)

Username -> @username can only be used for public channels/groups (no private chats/channels/groups)

Upvotes: 2

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