garvarma
(Manuel)
October 4, 2016, 11:42am
1
Hi,
I want to create a telegram bot for notifications like alarm system, covers, etc.
First i created bot in telegram and i have de api, but for HA configuration ask for chat_id. How i can obtain this value?
I tried to in http put:
https://api.telegram.org/botTokenAPI/getUpdates?offset=0
result: {“ok”:false,“error_code”:401,“description”:“Unauthorized”}
https://api.telegram.org/botTokenAPI/getUpdates
result: {“ok”:false,“error_code”:401,“description”:“Unauthorized”}
https://api.telegram.org/botTokenAPI/sendMessage?chat_id=@channelName&text=123
result: {“ok”:false,“error_code”:401,“description”:“Unauthorized”}
https://api.telegram.org/botTokenAPI/getUpdates
result: {“ok”:true,“result”:[]}
I dunno what else to do to obtain chat_id.
please can someone explain me?
thanks
jgon
(Javier)
October 4, 2016, 11:54am
2
Make your channel public, then call sendMessage and in json response look for the field “id”, this is the chat_id.
After get the chat_id you can make your channel private again.
garvarma
(Manuel)
October 4, 2016, 4:00pm
3
Hi,
Thanks for reply.
Well i created channel and made it public. What does it mean “call sendMessage” ? I need computer for this or maybe with my iphone is enought?
Well sorry but i don’t have much idea about json, i need some application in my computer to use json? and see the id chat?
thanks and sorry about this questions.
jgon
(Javier)
October 4, 2016, 5:00pm
4
Hi,
When i say call “sendMessage” i refer to: https://api.telegram.org/botTokenAPI/sendMessage … service.
Don’t worry about json, you’ll see the id that your looking for in response of sendMessage (field id).
fabaff
(Fabian Affolter)
October 4, 2016, 7:36pm
5
The platform documentation shows two ways to retrieve the chat_id
.
garvarma
(Manuel)
October 4, 2016, 9:06pm
6
Hi,
Before create this topic, i red platform documentation as you can see in my first post with examples that i tried.
About second option in platform documentation, where i need to write this code? In HA? In pc?
Thanks
fabaff
(Fabian Affolter)
October 4, 2016, 9:28pm
7
Well, in this case I will update the docs. It seems not clear that YOUR_API_TOKEN
should be the token.
Command-line after the Python interpreter is loaded.
garvarma
(Manuel)
October 5, 2016, 10:38am
8
Hi jgon,
I tried to so as you told me, about message, but appear me a message that bot is not in channel:
https://api.telegram.org/botTokenAPI/sendMessage?chat_id=@casarg&text=123
result: {“ok”:false,“error_code”:403,“description”:“Forbidden: bot is not a member of the channel chat”}
Then i tried i add bot in the channel, but i can’t appears me this error:
Method: channels.inviteToChannel
Url: N/A
Result: {“_”:“rpc_error”,“error_code”:400,“error_message”:“USER_BOT”}
Stack: h@https://web.telegram.org/js/app.js:23:25735
ee@https://web.telegram.org/js/app.js:29:12302
e.inviteToGroup/<@https://web.telegram.org/js/app.js:27:21477
s@https://web.telegram.org/js/app.js:13:4947
r/<@https://web.telegram.org/js/app.js:13:5119
Cn/this.$get</g.prototype.$eval@https://web.telegram.org/js/app.js:13:12662
Cn/this.$get</g.prototype.$digest@https://web.telegram.org/js/app.js:13:11144
Cn/this.$get</g.prototype.$apply@https://web.telegram.org/js/app.js:13:12947
us[t]</<.compile/</<@https://web.telegram.org/js/app.js:15:17814
ae.event.dispatch@https://web.telegram.org/js/app.js:4:2735
ae.event.add/f.handle@https://web.telegram.org/js/app.js:3:31539
thanks
sebk-666
(Sebastian)
October 5, 2016, 4:04pm
9
Hi,
the chat_id is not a nick name like “@casarg ”.
It is a 9-digit number.
garvarma
(Manuel)
October 6, 2016, 8:00am
10
Hi to every one.
First of all thanks for replies.
At the end i obtained the chat_id.
How? Well via https i was in my telegram web. Then i wrote to my bot something like:
then via https i use the code:
https://api.telegram.org/botTokenAPI/getUpdates?offset=0
and i obtained 3 lines with messages sent it before, and i each line i have de chat_id.
thanks!
Now i want send info from temperature sensor or status of mobile by telegram.
someone can tell me here to find this info or some examples?
thanks again!
Bob_NL
(Bob Visser)
March 16, 2017, 9:09pm
11
I setup the bot and got a API key, however if I visit the link with my own api key I got the following reply:
{"ok":true,"result":[]}
Can someone tell my how to obtain my chat ID?
The Python version is not working for me:
>>> import telegram
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
ImportError: No module named 'telegram'
UPDATE: got my id after talking to my bot through Telegram web and then revisiting the URL