Joining a chat or channel - LonamiWebs/Telethon GitHub Wiki
Note that Chat
s are normal groups, and Channel
s are a special form of Chat
s, which can also be super-groups if their megagroup
member is True
.
Joining a public channel
Once you have the entity of the channel you want to join to, you can make use of the JoinChannelRequest
to join such channel:
from telethon.tl.functions.channels import JoinChannelRequest
client(JoinChannelRequest(channel))
# In the same way, you can also leave such channel
from telethon.tl.functions.channels import LeaveChannelRequest
client(LeaveChannelRequest(input_channel))
For more on channels, check the channels
namespace.
Joining a private chat or channel
If all you have is a link like this one: https://t.me/joinchat/AAAAAFFszQPyPEZ7wgxLtd
, you already have enough information to join! The part after the https://t.me/joinchat/
, this is, AAAAAFFszQPyPEZ7wgxLtd
on this example, is the hash
of the chat or channel. Now you can use ImportChatInviteRequest
as follows:
from telethon.tl.functions.messages import ImportChatInviteRequest
updates = client(ImportChatInviteRequest('AAAAAEHbEkejzxUjAUCfYg'))
Adding someone else to such chat or channel
If you don't want to add yourself, maybe because you're already in, you can always add someone else with the AddChatUserRequest
, which use is very straightforward:
from telethon.tl.functions.messages import AddChatUserRequest
client(AddChatUserRequest(
chat_id,
user_to_add,
fwd_limit=10 # allow the user to see the 10 last messages
))
Checking a link without joining
If you don't need to join but rather check whether it's a group or a channel, you can use the CheckChatInviteRequest
, which takes in the hash of said channel or group.