How to create a link to contact specific phone number via Telegram?

Question

So I found out I could use a link like this in HTML:

<a href="https://api.whatsapp.com/send?phone={{phone_number}}" target="_blank">WhatsApp</a>

in order to let a user contact {{phone_number}} directly from a webpage (via WhatsApp web).

My question is: how to do the same but instead of WhatsApp, via Telegram?

Thank you in advance

https://stackoverflow.com/a/54258584/15247307 Why isn't this a limitation with WhatsApp? — Dr. Harshad Ramineni, Feb 20 '21 at 14:48
Whatsapp doesn't respect users' privacy and allows governments to crawl and store user's data easily. That's one of the reasons authoritarian regimes such as Iran have blocked Telegram but not Whatsapp. — Ali Hashemi, Mar 02 '21 at 12:23

Ali Hashemi · Answer 1 · 2022-10-28T19:23:10.533

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Update (2022):

Links to phone numbers such as https://t.me/+1XXXXXXX will lead you to a web page the same as username links do, but you can only start chatting with the user if their privacy settings allows you.

Old answer:

It's NOT possible to link to Telegram like this for a phone numbers so far, because every user MUST add the phone number to their contact list before they can send a message to them by phone number. This limitation is because of Telegram privacy policy and abuse prevention. In more details, if Telegram allow this type of linking, a malicious party can fetch a web page like https://t.me/+1XXXXXXX for every possible number without passing authentication. That's most probably why Telegram doesn't have such linking feature.

However, you can link to @username of a Telegram user if he/she has any:

https://t.me/username

edited Oct 28 '22 at 19:23

answered Jan 18 '19 at 17:10

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The answer seems to be outdated, because now https://t.me/+1XXXXXXX works fine – Georgy Spassky Mar 24 '22 at 04:59
Pardon me, it works only for Telegram Desktop, but still not working for the app ((( – Georgy Spassky Mar 26 '22 at 07:51
@GeorgySpassky hey it does work on the mobile app as well – Guillermo Oct 21 '22 at 16:43

score 27 · Answer 2 · answered Jan 18 '19 at 11:37

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Welcome to StackOverflow.

You should create a link like https://telegram.me/YourUsername for that purpose.

Check Telegram blog for more info.

answered Jan 18 '19 at 11:37

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Thank you very much, that helped a lot! – Joan Sagué Flo Jan 19 '19 at 13:52
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@Joan Sagué Flo If that helped you, select the answer as the correct one – HoRn Apr 23 '21 at 15:53

Feuermurmel · Answer 3 · 2022-08-12T12:26:45.503

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It is possible to create links to Telegram, WhatsApp and Signal accounts using their associated phone numbers using these URLs:

https://t.me/+41794997040
https://wa.me/+41794997040
https://signal.me/#p/+41794997040

edited Aug 12 '22 at 12:26

answered Apr 28 '22 at 10:26

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Is it possible to also add a message there? Are there similar ones for video/audio calls via Telegram? – android developer Aug 11 '22 at 08:51
@androiddeveloper Not that I would know of – Feuermurmel Aug 12 '22 at 12:29
Checking on the Contacts app by Google (when choosing a contact that has Telegram, and I have Telegram app), it seems that at least in the Android API it should be possible, but for some reason it doesn't work for me. Can you please see if I'm correct on this? – android developer Aug 13 '22 at 13:30
I've only looked at solutions that work cross-platform from a web-browser and not just within the ecosystem of a specific mobile OS, so I can't help you. – Feuermurmel Aug 15 '22 at 11:38

How to create a link to contact specific phone number via Telegram?

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Update (2022):

Old answer:

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