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Hi I have a program in python that generates results every one hour. The result can be of anything.This program will run in local machine or in the virtual private network.

I have two requirements 1. Send this python generated result to one telegram group [Group name "ourworld"](created by me) automatically without user intervention . (I have desktop telegram client running or web.telegram.org running in the same system)

  1. Send this result to gmail group email ID.

what are the methods available to achieve this requirement .Is there any working code available to do this job .Please share the info and details.

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The Issue that i am facing :

1.created a Bot using BotFather. 2.Adding this Bot to my Group ,Here i get an error could not add an member So added the Bot as admin in the group 3.Token of the BOT noted down. 4. Trying to get ChatId in this forum (https://web.telegram.org/#/im?p=g154513121) someone says number after p=g is the chartid ,In my case there is no number it shows @testingname like this.

  1. Using this approach trying to get the Chat ID https://api.telegram.org/bot738909732:AAE-2l7xAAlYHBXprK_a_bex09g9DMZbbDI/getme so here 738909732 become a chat Id (in this case why we need seperate call for the chart id) here it is true as response coming! Here the chat id is the ID of the my "testingname" no chart id generated for the group. 6.Now packing the URL to see the response i am getting this error.

https://api.telegram.org/bot738909732:AAE-2l7xAAlYHBXprK_a_bex09g9DMZbbDI/sendMessage?chat_id=738909732&text=testing

the output if i run this in browser

{"ok":false,"error_code":400,"description":"Bad Request: chat not found"} {"ok":false,"error_code":403,"description":"Forbidden: bot can't send messages to bots"}

How to resolve this issue and make the BOT working .why i am not able to add BOT to my group that says error "Cant Add user"

How to make this telegram group working.

Note : Using BotFather BOT created

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  • Have you taken a look at the telegram api? – TZubiri Oct 27 '18 at 03:34
  • @marx-babu first try to send message from telegram dekstop client/mobile to the group. then in your browser type the address https://api.telegram.org/bot/getUpdates , where token is your bot token you recived while generating. then you will be able to see your chat-id. remember chat-id will be negative no. as i have mentioned earlier – bipin_s Oct 27 '18 at 12:03
  • getupdates gives right information this i tried and the result is this ,after 5th step it fails {"ok":true,"result":{"id":738909xxx,"is_bot":true,"first_name":"xxxx","username":"xxxx_bot"}} – Marx Babu Oct 27 '18 at 12:09
  • @marx-babu did you get the chat-id – bipin_s Oct 27 '18 at 12:12
  • is there any way i connect with you to resolve this i got the chat id. it is above in {{}} – Marx Babu Oct 27 '18 at 12:16
  • @marx-babu the chat id will be a negative number. the bot token and chat -id cannot be same. Start your bot by sending /start@botusername to the group. – bipin_s Oct 27 '18 at 12:27
  • @bipin_s i created another BOT and another group here it works well .In the original group in which i wanted to add the chat id shows "@xxxxx" something not a number .How to get a chat number for this group . – Marx Babu Oct 27 '18 at 12:28
  • Let us [continue this discussion in chat](https://chat.stackoverflow.com/rooms/182634/discussion-between-bipin-s-and-marx-babu). – bipin_s Oct 27 '18 at 12:29

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to send message to the telegram "group" without any user intervention , you require a telegram bot. create one using telegram bot-father. take a look at this link. also note the token while creating the bot. This method will work only for telegram Group .Telegram channel another method to be followed which MarxBabu answered below in his answers post. 

import requests

# telegram url
url = "https://api.telegram.org/bot<Token>"

def send_mess(text):
    params = {'chat_id':-xxxxxxx, 'text': text}
    response = requests.post(url + 'sendMessage', data=params)
    return response


send_mess(result_you_want_to_send)

to get the chat_id follow the steps mentioned here. note: group chat id's always starts with '-' . e.g. of group chat_id -356163873. A token and chat_id is only what you require to send message to telegram group.

for sending group emails you have to search more as i do not know much

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In case for sending message to telegram group the above method provided by bipin_s works where the chat_id = -xxxxxx is used.This is correct id followed by - symbol to be used.

For Posting message in the "telegram channel " a minor change needs to be done in the URL.The URL must be framed as below .

url = "https://api.telegram.org/botTokenID/sendMessage?chat_id=@yourChannelChatID&text=message"

Replace the TokenID with your BOT tokenID replace the yourChannelChatID with your channel chart id.Please note that the channel id is not negative id.

the code will look like this 

import request

url = "https://api.telegram.org/botXyz:wwwwDFSJSJSAX/sendMessage?chat_id=@telechanneltesting&text=message"
requests.post(url)

Here the "message" as in the URL it will be posted in telegram channel.

How to get channel id ? Go to https://web.telegram.org/#/im in browser ,after login now search your "channel".Now in the browser address bar you will one link like https://web.telegram.org/#/im?p=@llliopppppsssssr

p=@llliopppppsssssr after the equal symbol what comes is channel chat ID.

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  • there is a small problem when the string to be sent contain the symbol `+`, for example when running this command `requests.post("https://api.telegram....&text=test+8")` the message sent to telegram is just `test8` and on Python I get this message ``. What's going on? – sound wave Oct 25 '20 at 09:16
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I have it running on a Raspberry pi. You must look for botfather to get your telegram token.

import telepot 
from telepot.loop import MessageLoop
telegram_token = 'xxxx:xxxxxx'
user = 4444444
bot = telepot.Bot(telegram_token)
bot.sendMessage(user, 'Hey!')

For configuring gmail I don't have something here right now...

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  • as posted in the edit in original post i am getting strange error code.can you please check why the error coming – Marx Babu Oct 27 '18 at 11:40
  • are you replacing by the token given by the botfather? If you don't know how to do this let me know. Anthor try should urlencode(text) or replace "sendmessage" by "/sendmessage/" – lfkopp Nov 05 '18 at 15:55
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You can send emails in python through SMTP or using the Mailgun Api

I personally prefer using Mailgun as it is easier to setup and sending an email is as easy as sending a post request to mailgun. You can get the free version of the api and add your group email id to the sandbox (to avoid spam) and then use requests to post an email with the given api token

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