Get the Telegram channel ID

steps.md

To get the channel id

1. Create your bot with botfather
2. Make you bot an admin of your channel

New improved next steps

3. Go to https://web.telegram.org
4. Click on your channel
5. Look at the URL and find the part that looks like c12112121212_17878787878787878
6. Remove the underscore and after c12112121212
7. Remove the prefixed letter 12112121212
8. Prefix with a -100 so -10012112121212
9. That's your channel id.

Old yucky next steps

3. Make your channel public
4. Create a public link
5. Send a message from console to @[your_public_link_text]
6. Copy chat id from response in console as the channel id

much easier way .. forward a message from that channel to this @JsonDumpBot bot

can voila there's your ID

ty man!

what if i had a channel id and wanted to get the channel link?

I still stand by my original solution above where you just have to remove a -100 from a number in a URL.

It feels a bit over-engineered to use a chatbot 🤷

lol and there are three JsonDumpBots. The one that seems to work is the one with the dumptruck icon. But I wouldn't forward them anything sensitive :D :D :D :D :D

just wanted to say @syntaxhacker is da MVP for that bot link

Just right click on channel post and select Copy Post Link, you will get something looks like to this
https://t.me/c/123456789/137

Then do -100 + 123456789 = -100123456789 is your Channel id.

the solution doesn't work now. How can I find chat_id now?

Thanks everyone, from this thread, I found 2 ways that work:

1. Using web.telegram.org, and click on the channel, the URL will be something like: https://web.telegram.org/z/#-1782626220, the channel id is -1001782626220
2. Forward a message from that channel to @username_to_id_bot, it will reply with the channel id.

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/33858927/how-to-obtain-the-chat-id-of-a-private-telegram-channel/75456341#75456341

from telethon.sync import TelegramClient, events
client = TelegramClient("bot", API_ID, API_HASH)


channel_name = "channel username"
channel = client.get_entity(channel_name)
print(f'👉 Channel ID: {channel.id}')

client.start()
client.run_until_disconnected()

Well I’ve channel id but how can I find it’s channel joining link to join

Remember to make your bot admin in your channel, otherwise none of this shit above will work

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