Send message to Telegram user using Python
Have you ever wondered how people do automation on Telegram? You may know that Telegram has a big user base and so it is one of the preferred social media to read people. What good thing about Telegram is that it provides a bunch of API’s methods, unlike Whatsapp which restricts such things. So in this post, we will be sharing how to send messages to a Telegram user using Python.
Getting Started
First, create a bot using Telegram BotFather. To create a BotFather follow the below steps –
- Open the telegram app and search for @BotFather.
- Click on the start button or send “/start”.
- Then send “/newbot” message to set up a name and a username.
- After setting name and username BotFather will give you an API token which is your bot token.
Then create an app on the telegram. Follow the below steps –
- Log into the telegram core: https://my.telegram.org
- Go to ‘API development tools’ and fill out the form.
- You will get the api_id and api_hash parameters required for user authorization.
Modules needed
You need several Python library imports for the script functioning.
- telebot: To install this module type the below command in the terminal.
pip install telebot
- telethon: To install this module type the below command in the terminal.
pip install telethon
Below is the implementation.
- Python3
# importing all required libraries import telebot from telethon.sync import TelegramClient from telethon.tl.types import InputPeerUser, InputPeerChannel from telethon import TelegramClient, sync, events # get your api_id, api_hash, token # from telegram as described above api_id = 'API_id' api_hash = 'API_hash' token = 'bot token' message = "Working..." # your phone number phone = 'YOUR_PHONE_NUMBER_WTH_COUNTRY_CODE' # creating a telegram session and assigning # it to a variable client client = TelegramClient( 'session' , api_id, api_hash) # connecting and building the session client.connect() # in case of script ran first time it will # ask either to input token or otp sent to # number or sent or your telegram id if not client.is_user_authorized(): client.send_code_request(phone) # signing in the client client.sign_in(phone, input ( 'Enter the code: ' )) try : # receiver user_id and access_hash, use # my user_id and access_hash for reference receiver = InputPeerUser( 'user_id' , 'user_hash' ) # sending message using telegram client client.send_message(receiver, message, parse_mode = 'html' ) except Exception as e: # there may be many error coming in while like peer # error, wrong access_hash, flood_error, etc print (e); # disconnecting the telegram session client.disconnect() |
Last Updated on November 13, 2021 by admin