I am using the telepot python library, I know that you can send a message when you have someone's UserID(Which is a number). I wanna know if it is possible to send a message to someone without having their UserID but only with their username(The one which starts with '@'), Also if there is a way to convert a username to a UserID.
You can't send message to users using their username that is in form of @username
, you can just send messages to channel usernames which your bot is administrator of it. Telegram bot api uses chat_id
identifier for sending messages. If you want to achieve chat_id
of users, you can use telegram-cli, but it's not easy at all because that project is discontinued and you should debug it yourself.
in your case you should do following command:
> resolve_username vahid_mas
and the output will be something like this:
{
"user": {
"username": "Vahid_Mas",
"id": "$010000006459670b02c0c7fd66d44708",
"last_name": "",
"peer_type": "user",
"print_name": "Vahid",
"flags": 720897,
"peer_id": 191322468,
"first_name": "Vahid",
"phone": "xxxxxxx"
},
"online": false,
"event": "online-status",
"state": -1,
"when": "2017-01-22 17:43:16"
}