Telegram bots read channel updates

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As telegram bots reads groups updates, is there any way to read channel updates also?

there is telegram-cli https://github.com/vysheng/tg client, you may try to watch updates through it — Slavik, Sep 16 '16 at 07:37

Ruben Bermudez · Answer 1 · 2017-01-07T17:26:29.690

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At the moment, Telegram Bots API doesn't allow bots to receive messages in channels, so it is not possible to read them (unless you use a Telegram API one.

Update

Since November update, the api now supports channel post and edition updates.

edited Jan 07 '17 at 17:26

answered Sep 28 '16 at 09:53

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How can I join my bot into channels to get thier updates (channels which I am not thier admin) ? – SoheilYou Mar 15 '17 at 06:35
At the moment, bots can only be added as admins to channels – Ruben Bermudez Mar 19 '17 at 15:22

score 4 · Answer 2 · edited Feb 20 '21 at 21:55

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for not your channel: if the channel is public, you can scrape from html code with address : https://t.me/s/ChannelName/messageId if the channel is private, nothing to do

for your channel: you can create a dummy group, then request 'forwardMessage' to forward from channel to dummy group

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answered Nov 08 '20 at 23:37

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score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Aug 27 '17 at 13:07

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Yes, you only have to add the bot to your channel.

This is a JSON RESPONSE

{"update_id":164442191, "channel_post":{"message_id":1405,"chat":{"id":-1001066700541,"title":"Underworld'S Creatures","username":"IlSottobosco","type":"channel"},"date":1499299471,"reply_to_message":{"message_id":1403,"chat":{"id":-100106670231,"title":"Underworld'S Creatures","username":"IlSottobosco","type":"channel"},"date":1499298047,"text":"Test"}}

answered Aug 27 '17 at 13:07

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Is there a way to get updates from a channel (not mine but where I am a subscriber) for every messages added? There are a lot of commercial bot that works but don't understand how they work – Giuseppe Lodi Rizzini Feb 24 '20 at 11:38

score 0 · Answer 4 · answered Apr 09 '23 at 15:36

Yes. Just like groups and users update, but the difference is, you have to change ["message"]["text"] with ["channel_post"]["text"].

Take a look at this code:

$update = json_decode(file_get_contents("php://input"), TRUE);
$message = $update["message"]["text"]; // this will get users and groups messages.
$channel_post = $update["channel_post"]["text"]; // this will get messages send to the channel that bot is admin.

Telegram bots read channel updates

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