If you would like to send messages via Telegram4MQL you need to find out chat IDs of your message targets. Those might be private chats, group chats or channels.
Requirements:
- You need to create a bot (not handled here as there are many useful tutorials out there).
- Start a conversation with your bot
- For private chats: Search your bot in the global contact list, hit /start and maybe send a second message, content does not matter.
- For group chats: Invite your bot as a member into a new or existing group via global contact search. You might enable “privacy mode” to receive more types of messages. See the Telegram documentation for more information. Then send a message.
- For channels: If you just want to receive messages you need to invite your bot as a member into the channel. If you would like to send messages to the channel you need to add the bot as administrator. Then send a message.
When this is done you need to receive these message to detect the chat IDs. In the simplest scenario you enter a URL like this into your browsers address field:
https://api.telegram.org/bot/getUpdates
This will give you a JSON output you can investigate. What you’re looking for ist the <ID> in the following examples (in private chats the private id is the same as the chat id):
Private:
{
"update_id": 146878178,
"message": {
"message_id": 1352,
"from": {
"id": <PRIVATE ID>,
"first_name": "stzzzzz",
"username": "stzzzzz"
},
"chat": {
"id": <ID>,
"first_name": "stzzzzz",
"username": "stzzzzzz",
"type": "private"
},
"date": 1486291815,
"text": "some text here with a url https://123.com",
"entities": [
{
"type": "url",
"offset": 0,
"length": 44
}
]
}
}
Group:
{
"update_id": 146878181,
"message": {
"message_id": 1353,
"from": {
"id": <PRIVATE ID>,
"first_name": "stzzzzz",
"username": "stzzzzz"
},
"chat": {
"id": <ID>,
"title": "MQL Group",
"type": "group",
"all_members_are_administrators": true
},
"date": 1486296142,
"group_chat_created": true
}
}
Channel:
{
"update_id": 146xxx,
"channel_post": {
"message_id": 2,
"chat": {
"id": <ID>,
"title": "testing channel",
"type": "channel"
},
"date": 1486292382,
"text": "test"
}
}
Ok. You’re ready to use the Telegram4MQL functions now. Have a look.
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