How to send messages to a Telegram group in C# using Visual Studio 2022

group-send-telegram-text.cs

using System;
using System.Net;
using System.Text.Json;
using System.IO;
using System.Text;

class TelegramGroupMessageSender
{
    // TODO: Replace the following with your gateway instance ID, Premium Account client ID and secret:
    private static string INSTANCE_ID = "YOUR_INSTANCE_ID_HERE";
    private static string CLIENT_ID = "YOUR_CLIENT_ID_HERE";
    private static string CLIENT_SECRET = "YOUR_CLIENT_SECRET_HERE";

    private static string API_URL = "https://api.whatsmate.net/v3/telegram/group/text/message/" + INSTANCE_ID;

    static void Main(string[] args)
    {
        TelegramGroupMessageSender groupMsgSender = new TelegramGroupMessageSender();
        groupMsgSender.sendGroupMessage("Muscle Men Club", "19159876123", "Your six-pack is on the way!");  // TODO: Specify the group namd and group admin
        Console.WriteLine("Press Enter to exit.");
        Console.ReadLine();
    }

    public bool sendGroupMessage(string group_name, string group_admin, string message)
    {
        bool success = true;

        try
        {
            HttpWebRequest httpRequest = (HttpWebRequest)WebRequest.Create(API_URL);
            httpRequest.Method = "POST";
            httpRequest.Accept = "application/json";
            httpRequest.ContentType = "application/json";
            httpRequest.Headers["X-WM-CLIENT-ID"] = CLIENT_ID;
            httpRequest.Headers["X-WM-CLIENT-SECRET"] = CLIENT_SECRET;

            GroupPayload payloadObj = new GroupPayload() { group_name = group_name, group_admin = group_admin, message = message };
            string postData = JsonSerializer.Serialize(payloadObj);

            using (var streamWriter = new StreamWriter(httpRequest.GetRequestStream()))
            {
                streamWriter.Write(postData);
            }

            var httpResponse = (HttpWebResponse)httpRequest.GetResponse();
            using (var streamReader = new StreamReader(httpResponse.GetResponseStream()))
            {
                var result = streamReader.ReadToEnd();
                Console.WriteLine(result);
            }
        }
        catch (WebException webExcp)
        {
            Console.WriteLine("A WebException has been caught.");
            Console.WriteLine(webExcp.ToString());
            WebExceptionStatus status = webExcp.Status;
            if (status == WebExceptionStatus.ProtocolError)
            {
                Console.Write("The REST API server returned a protocol error: ");
                HttpWebResponse? httpResponse = webExcp.Response as HttpWebResponse;
                Stream stream = httpResponse.GetResponseStream();
                StreamReader reader = new StreamReader(stream);
                String body = reader.ReadToEnd();
                Console.WriteLine((int)httpResponse.StatusCode + " - " + body);
                success = false;
            }
        }
        catch (Exception e)
        {
            Console.WriteLine("A general exception has been caught.");
            Console.WriteLine(e.ToString());
            success = false;
        }


        return success;
    }

    public class GroupPayload
    {
        public string group_name { get; set; }
        public string group_admin { get; set; }
        public string message { get; set; }
    }

}