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I build a simple telegram bot using the telebot library and it's successfully working! then I added the bot into a telegram channel it's not working! also, I added the same bot to a telegram group then it's working! I'm a little bit confused why the telegram bot is not working in my telegram channel? Can anyone help me through this?

Here is my code.

import telebot

from constatnts import API_KEY

bot = telebot.TeleBot(API_KEY, parse_mode=None)


@bot.message_handler(commands=['help', 'hello'])
def send_help_message(msg):
    bot.reply_to(msg, "Hello this is test bot for ml5")
    print(msg)


@bot.message_handler(func=lambda msg: msg.content_type == 'text' )
def send_message(msg):
    bot.reply_to(msg, "Gotcha")

bot.polling()
Yomal Senarath
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import telebot

from constatnts import API_KEY

bot = telebot.TeleBot(API_KEY, parse_mode=None)


@bot.channel_post_handler(commands=['help', 'hello'])
def send_help_message(msg):
    bot.reply_to(msg, "Hello this is test bot for ml5")
    print(msg)


@bot.message_handler(func=lambda msg: msg.content_type == 'text' )
def send_message(msg):
    bot.reply_to(msg, "Gotcha")

bot.polling()
Erling Olsen
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IIRC, messages and channel posts have different handlers:

@bot.channel_post_handler(commands=['help', 'hello'])

Also do make sure the bot is an administrator of the channel.

50Fifty
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