How to get the group ID and chat ID with telegram inline bot

apibotspython-telegram-bottelegramtelegram-bot

Does any of you guys knows how @like telegram bot works?

When I call it in a group using inline, then select to make a new post, it forwards me to the bot chat, and when I finish, it forwards me back to the group I was. So it must have the group ID somehow.

But accordingly to the API docs, that's not possible.

I tried some tests and all I get is the user ID (as chat ID)

I want to be able to call a inline bot from a group, and then forward it to the bot chat with the user ID and the group ID. It seems that the @like bot does that, but I don't know how.

Can someone help me?

Best Answer

So I find out the solution! There is a special mechanism for returning from where the bot was called:

https://core.telegram.org/bots/api#answerinlinequery the last two parameters https://core.telegram.org/bots/api#inlinekeyboardbutton the last parameter

Related Solutions

Telegram Bot – how to get a group chat id

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

Add the Telegram BOT to the group.

Get the list of updates for your BOT:

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

Ex:

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

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.

Use the "id" of the "chat" object to send your messages.
(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)
Private chart only works in image argoprojlabs/argocd-notifications:v1.1.0 or above.

Telegram Bot API errors codes (integrating Groups and Channels)

I answer myself having found a possible reason of the problem. The problem arise just with a single specific Bot I created in past (and I removed from a group). As specificed in question:

Step by step story

step 1: After creation I added that bot on a group with 2 users: (myself and a second person).
step 2: Afterward I removed that bot from the group.
step 3: I used that bot to test my BOTserver sending SendMessage od reply to webhook update. Now i experienced the mentioned 400/403 errors.
step 4: I DELETED that Bot, chatting with BotFather.
step 5: I created again the same Bot with the **SAME identichal name*
Step 6: I tested again, an I rised the usual issue:

Telegram API has returned the error. (ok: "false", error_code: "401", description: "[Error]: Unauthorized"):
Step 7: I created new bot(s) with different name(s) Finally, no more errors!

Conclusion:

I fair the original Bot name remained in a "wrong" Telegram server internal status. My hypotesis is that adding/removing Bots from Groups have some problem/bug.

My Solution:

delete the bot name created problems, no more using that "name" :(
recreate a bot with different name.

Any similar experience ?