Get the Telegram channel ID

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To get the channel id

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

Simplest way (via @anhtuank7c)

Go to Telegram web and open a channel, get the ID from -[channel id] from hash in the path

https://web.telegram.org/k/#-9999999999999

-9999999999999 is the channel ID.

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(DEPRECATED) 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

The solution I used is to forward a message from my channel to @get_id_bot and it returns the id. Beside that, you could set a log in your bot and forward a message from private channel to it and in terminal you could see the id. The web telegram solution worked too but I think @get_id_bot is easier and the log method is safer if you want to keep your chat id private for any reason.

@kiarashjv I agreed with you about use @get_id_bot is convenient but I don't think web telegram expose your channel id so it still safe.

while @get_id_bot exposes the channel ID to a random bot

@mraaroncruz you got the point 😎

@mraaroncruz yeah, as I said it depends on you want to keep your ID private or not 😅

in total I think forwarding a message to your own bot is better because as I understand the method of extracting ID from web might change.