Hi everyone,
In this tutorial, we’re going to build a telegram bot ,and send messages to a group with a simple HTTP request.
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Thanks for the tutorial.
In my case for some reason POST and GET requests to
https://api.telegram.org/bot<token>/getUpdatesin Postman failed, but GET request in the browser to this endpoint was successfull.Try to add the bot to the group and then try the command.
The bot was in the group, but the request in Postman failed 🤷♀️
Strange, mine was also failing, but after adding to the group issue was resolved. Just check if the bot has admin privilege.
Also, try with curl once.
Oh, I think I figured out the difference in results between Postman and browser requests.
Telegram servers are blocked here in Russia, that's why Postman requests fail. But in the browser I use VPN extension and the request resolves as expected.
Thanks for your help 😉
wow , that's some serious debugging.
for me the results came after i added the bot to the group and then i send some messages to the group. so there is some data to show.
Yeah, but in normal situation even if you don't add the bot to the group and send request
https://api.telegram.org/bot<token>/getUpdates, you'll get an emtpy response like{"ok":true,"result":[]}.In the case of access restriction on a government level, there is no response in Postman at all.
thanks 👍
That's interesting .
Thanks for sharing 👍
Great tutorial. I was able to reproduce it for both a group and a channel following the same steps. However I did find it compulsory to have sent at least 1 message to the said group or channel in order to receive the bot's update message with the ID of the group/channel
Thanks 🙌.
yeah when the group is empty we just get an empty array
next time use real token and just delete; common sense man. first it is demo account yet you still can't add to tutorial? second you can always delete the token after done with tutorial. why is this difficult for people to grasp? i see everyone keep doing this like common sense is becoming rare?
Ok. I followed all these steps and I cannot make this work. Maybe I don't understand. Please help.
I want to create a simple bot where I can send messages to a specific Telegram group (my family) and do so from a URL (so I can do it from within another app).
I created the bot, got the token, found the chat ID of the group I want the posts to go into and put in all the information and I get an error not found.
Your instructions say to create a bot THEN create a group. I already have a group chat. I added the bot into that group chat. But that bot has nothing else. It was just created and has a name. Am I missing something here? How do you get the new bot to be able to post messages into the group? I cannot create a new group as the group already exists.
Please explain. Thank you.
Existing group is fine you don't have to create a new group .
can you post the error you got.
hi,I wanna know how about this situation:we input "api.telegram.org/bot/sendmessage?chat_id=&text=test1" in broswer,I know the chat_id will get the content"test1",but how can I get the content "test1" by another broswer url code link or php/java code.
Telegram bot (my_bot messages not visible to others)
Sir, I have created Telegram bot(my_bot). I am getting project notifications in my mobile. When i asked other employee to install Telegram and add my_bot. He didn't get any notifications similar as mine. Its blank whereas I get project notifications.
Even I added the bot in new group and also added employee.
Still the same problem. Can you please find out where I have done mistake.
hi Duvvuri Sandeep ,
this is quiet uncommon , i use this method recently and works fine.
can you make sure bot permissions are correctly set(admin permissions) .
and also make sure the group id (starts with "-" ) is also correct.
Good intro article.
However:
hi thanks for your feedback .
Hi can i send a message to an individual rather than a group please
this might help you
Send a message to your bot then retrieve the update with:
In the json string returned you will find you chat_id/user_id.
In single chat with the bot chat_id is equal to user_id.
Now you can send your message with:
stackoverflow.com/a/32777943/9374003
hi ,
most of articles say it is not possible but i don't know it for sure.
if i found something i'll let you know.
That was very useful for me. Thanks, Rajitha!
🙌
How can Bot send rich messages like the text in bold or italic or some sort of option buttons
hi
core.telegram.org/bots/api#sendmes...
view this doc
u can use html markdown and other formatting options
Thanks for the tutorial! It's very easy to follow.
Glad to hear that 👍
Thank you so much brother for this amazing blog, I tried everything and it went perfectly. I'm able to send messages in my group through bot.
But I have a question...
Can I send a reply to a message in my group through bot using this method....????
Using Telegram bot framework can be good idea, since you should not implement classes or more scripts.
Thanks for the tutorial very helpfully. I'm working in a bot to make a web crawler and send notifications to a community. Regards from Cuba.
sounds cool 👌👌
By using php I wrote the code
Please review the link below
knowsomething.online/how-to-send-a...
hi prasaath ,
i don't have expertise in php to review this kind of an article😶.
I want to send a message to a group as soon as the chat opens
hi kishag212
i not clear , can you please explain it further .
Thanks for the tutorial
Hi, thank you for this tutorial. Do you know how to make bot sending message any time user joins chat? Text message or button or kinda menu
i think that is possible using telegram bots but not sure .
stackoverflow.com/questions/383244...
Looks like
getUpdatesandupdate.message.new_chat_membersworks only for group or supergroup not for private chats. But thank you anywayi have error 400 Bad Request: chat not found
as the error suggest , check whether you are using the correct chat id
and also make sure
-before the chat id .i have error : Bad Request: chat not found
Thanks for the step by step instructions.
You're welcome