Can't send message from my bot to myself -- chat not found

Asked Jun 12 '22 at 13:22

Active Jun 13 '22 at 07:32

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I have created Telegram bot from BotFather and it gave me an API key. Now when I am trying to open this URL

https://api.telegram.org/bot<MYAPIKEY>/sendMessage?chat_id=@<MYTELEGRAMUSERNAME>&text=Hello

it responds me

{
    "ok": false,
    "error_code": 400,
    "description": "Bad Request: chat not found"
}

How to fix? What I forgot to do?

I was trying to open my bot's page in telegram and type there something (it didn't respond anything).

I want my computer to send Telegram notifications to me.

edited Jun 13 '22 at 07:32

asked Jun 12 '22 at 13:22

Dims

The `@` syntax works only for groups and channels, not user chats. – Roj Jun 12 '22 at 19:56
And? How to send to user then? – Dims Jun 13 '22 at 07:31
With their ID. :) – Roj Jun 13 '22 at 08:00
Where to get it? – Dims Jun 13 '22 at 10:48
It will be included in the [`User`](https://core.telegram.org/bots/api#user) object in the updates your bot [gets](https://core.telegram.org/bots/api#getting-updates). – Roj Jun 13 '22 at 14:02
Answer can be found here: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/32423837/telegram-bot-how-to-get-a-group-chat-id – Holger Jun 20 '22 at 15:45

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