how to turn group / channel entity into a dialog object with telethon?

Question

I need to get some data about one chat (that is a group or a channel)

the data I want from chat is: chat id chat name chat type (group / channel , public / private) chat members etc...

I made already a function that takes the needed data from a dialog object.

but to get a dialog object of a chat I must get all chats, so is there any way I can get a dialog object of just one chat / turn a chat entity into a dialog object?

Answer 1

You don't need a Dialog object to get the information you have mentioned. they're all available in the Channel object. so you must be having an input entity. you can first do:

entity = client.get_entity(<anything you had before>) # to confirm you have full info

you can see the link above or print(entity.stringify()) to get the desired fields.

the unobvious ones can be:

• entity.megagroup: a group.
• entity.broadcast: a channel.
• not entity.username: private.

to get memebers is a whole different thing, check out client.get_participants