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List of kicked/banned users in a Telegram group/channel using telethon

With telethon you can do pretty much anything you want around Telegram. However, I cannot find a way to get a list of removed (banned) users in a group/channel. Any ideas?

For the record, you can do that via Telegram's GUI by going to Edit > Permissions > Removed Users.

Solution

  • In order to get a list of all the removed users in a Telegram group/channel using Telethon you need to use get_participants() with filter parameter set to ChannelParticipantsKicked.

    from telethon.tl.types import ChannelParticipantsKicked # import type to use as filter
kicked_members = await client.get_participants(chat, filter=ChannelParticipantsKicked)

    If you'd prefer to loop over the result without assign it to a variable you can use iter_participants() instead.

    from telethon.tl.types import ChannelParticipantsKicked 
async for user in client.iter_participants(chat, filter=ChannelParticipantsKicked):
    print(user.first_name)

    NR: here is a list of all the avaible filters usable with get/iter_participants().