Telegram bot get chat informations python

Question

about telegram bots , how can I get json information from a special chat (not all chats , by chat ID) by url like getupdates (https://api.telegram.org/bot/getupdates) .

because I get little information from getupdates I want to know some info like member IDs and messages IDs etc. in each group and chats.

Answer 1

Knowing the ID of the chat, you can use these methods:

• getChat - to get up to date info about the chat.

  • returns Chat object on success

• getChatAdministrators - to get a list of admins in a chat.

  • returns an Array of ChatMember on success.

• getChatMembersCount - to get the number of members in a chat.

  • returns Int on success

• getChatMember - to get information about a member of a chat.

  • returns ChatMember on success.

All these methods require the chat_id parameter, which can be Integer or String type. You can specify chat or channel username like @channelusername

Example request:

https://api.telegram.org/bot<API_TOKEN>/getChat?chat_id=<CHAT_ID>

Answer 2

There is no way to filter updates specifically by chat id (API does not permit that), if not onto your own code, however, you could still filter updates by their type.

Here's an example on how to filter callback queries and messages only:

api.telegram.org/bot{token}/getUpdates?allowed_updates=["callback_query","message"]

Note: as written on BotApi Documentation, even if you pass allowed_updates parameter on getUpdates, only new received updates will be filtered following filters:

Please note that this parameter doesn't affect updates created before the call to the getUpdates, so unwanted updates may be received for a short period of time.

All possible update types are listed here: core.telegram.org/bots/api#update