A python script to send messages to a telegram user. Useful to notify when long scripts are finished!

bot.py

#This script is independet of lib or python version (tested on python 2.7 and 3.5)

import telegram
#token that can be generated talking with @BotFather on telegram
my_token = ''

def send(msg, chat_id, token=my_token):
	"""
	Send a mensage to a telegram user specified on chatId
	chat_id must be a number!
	"""
	bot = telegram.Bot(token=token)
	bot.sendMessage(chat_id=chat_id, text=msg)

Hello - I'm pretty new to this Telegram Bot. I just had created my first bot through BotFather and I have my bot-token with me already. I have a question if I may ask you...

How do I obtain/get the target user's ChatID (my Telegram user's ID) to whom my bot is going to send the message, please?
Would the ChatID is dependent to my bot (meaning my ChatID must be provided by my Bot)?
Or it is tied to my Telegram User's ID (not numbers)?

Thanks. Rhar (Singapore).

Hi! No worry, some concepts are simple but I also take some time to understand then xD
So, answering your questions:

How do I obtain/get the target user's ChatID (my Telegram user's ID) to whom my bot is going to send the message, please?
There is a bot named @userinfobot that can give you this information. If you do not want to use it, you can create a dummy bot that receives a message and takes the chatId for each message. When the message comes from a private conversation, the chatId is the same as the userId.

Would the ChatID is dependent to my bot (meaning my ChatID must be provided by my Bot)? Or it is tied to my Telegram User's ID (not numbers)?
The chatId represents who I'm going to send this message, which can be a group (negative number), a user (positive number) and a channel (I think that can be the channel tag string). Different bots can use this same chatId numbers, since they have no relation to the bot itself.

Any questions, feel free to keep in touch :)

Hello Luc, Thanks for both responses - very helpful. The first #1 - I managed to get my Telegram UserID (a series of positive number). And the #2 above - I'm really interested to follow your bot.py and its revision. I will try to understand the revision tab - which lines I need to copy and which one I need to ignore - I guess, all the green lines are working and need to copy over. Thanks again. Rhar.

Added, can I know how to use your bot.py - it does not seem to have any main script, the lines are all part of "def" ... Should I call your bot.py from another Python script? Please help. Thanks.

Hi, can this script work by sending periodic messages to a telegram bot?

Hi Allan, this script only sends one message, but you can call this same function inside a script. For example, I have a script that checks the disk space of our server and notifies if some partition is becoming overloaded. I schedule this script to run every day using crontab on Ubuntu Server.

Hello, i installed telegram module and i have an error in line 10
it says "module "telegram" has no "bot" member . ..
what's wrong?

Hi @Torento22, maybe the problem is the version. I know that they updated the API. This could be a breakchange...

Hello, i installed telegram module and i have an error in line 10
it says "module "telegram" has no "bot" member . ..
what's wrong?

@Torento22 you should be pip-installing python-telegram-bot package, not telegram.

Hi Allan, this script only sends one message, but you can call this same function inside a script. For example, I have a script that checks the disk space of our server and notifies if some partition is becoming overloaded. I schedule this script to run every day using crontab on Ubuntu Server.

I want to write to python script that sends periodic message to a telegram bot. How can I do it?

Hi @greazee,how I said before, the way I did was using crontab at my Ubuntu Server. I scheduled to execute the script each 2 hours and, if the memory/cpu usage surpasses a threshold (80%), the script send a message to my telegram using a telegram bot

import Schedule

could i send a massage from my private account, and not from my bot?

could i send a massage from my private account, and not from my bot?

there is any way ?
see this :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ULIdgdR84Gg

I am also very new to this, lemme explain my situation:

I want to share my tool (selenium python app with a tkinter GUI) with some friends or unknown persons.
I would like to let telegrambot send a message like "Tool started" once my app gets started.

How can I achieve it that every user, using my app, is geting a private message?

_How do I obtain/get the target user's ChatID (my Telegram user's ID) to whom my bot is going to send the message, please?
If you do not want to use it, you can create a dummy bot that receives a message and takes the chatId for each message.

Any advice fora code that would achieve that? I am struggling woth that part.

@everyone

Are there any instances of sending messages using TypeScript?