Telegram Bot – how to get a group chat id?

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In order to get the group chat id, do as follows:

  1. Add the Telegram BOT to the group.

  2. Get the list of updates for your BOT:

     https://api.telegram.org/bot<YourBOTToken>/getUpdates

    Ex:

     https://api.telegram.org/bot123456789:jbd78sadvbdy63d37gda37bd8/getUpdates

  3. Look for the “chat” object:

{“update_id”:8393,”message”:{“message_id”:3,”from”:{“id”:7474,”first_name”:”AAA”},”chat”:{“id”:<group_ID>,”title”:””},”date”:25497,”new_chat_participant”:{“id”:71,”first_name”:”NAME”,”username”:”YOUR_BOT_NAME”}}}

This is a sample of the response when you add your BOT into a group.

  1. Use the “id” of the “chat” object to send your messages.

  2. (If you created the new group with the bot and you only get {"ok":true,"result":[]}, remove and add the bot again to the group)

  3. Private chart only works in image argoprojlabs/argocd-notifications:v1.1.0 or above.

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