Using telethon with a django application

I want to watch updates on telegram messages in an django application and interact with django orm.

I found telethon library, it works with user api which is what I want.

Below code simply works on its own.

from telethon import TelegramClient
from telethon import events

api_id = 231232131
api_hash = '32131232312312312edwq'
client = TelegramClient('anon', api_id, api_hash)


@client.on(events.NewMessage)
async def my_event_handler(event):
    if 'hello' in event.raw_text:
        await event.reply('hi!')


client.start()

But telethon requires phone message verification and it needs to work in a seperate thread.

I couldn't find a way to put this code in a django application. And when django starts, I dont know how to bypass phone verification.

It should always work in an seperate loop and interact with django orm. Which is very confusing for me.

Solution

You can simply use django-telethon and use the API endpoints for signing bot and user session.

run the following command to start the server:
```
python manage.py runserver
```
run the following command to start telegram client:
```
python manage.py runtelegram
```
go to admin panel and telegram app section. create a new app. get data from the your Telegram account.

request code from telegram:

import requests
import json

url = "127.0.0.1:8000/telegram/send-code-request/"

payload = json.dumps({
  "phone_number": "+12345678901",
  "client_session_name": "name of the client session"
})
headers = {
  'Content-Type': 'application/json'
}

response = requests.request("POST", url, headers=headers, data=payload)

print(response.text)

send this request for sign in:

import requests
import json

url = "127.0.0.1:8000/telegram/login-user-request/"

payload = json.dumps({
  "phone_number": "+12345678901",
  "client_session_name": "name of the client session",
  "code": "1234",
  "password": "1234"
})
headers = {
  'Content-Type': 'application/json'
}

response = requests.request("POST", url, headers=headers, data=payload)

print(response.text)