Privacy settings - LonamiWebs/Telethon GitHub Wiki
There are 8 "types" (keys) of privacy settings, which are separate from each other:
- Status Timestamp - Whether users can see your last active timestamp (also affects whether you can see the other person's)
- Chat Invite - Whether you can be invited to chats
- Phone Call - Whether you will accept phone calls
- Phone P2P - Whether you allow P2P communication during VoIP calls
- Forwards - Whether messages forwarded from you will be anonymous
- Profile Photo - Whether people will be able to see your profile picture
- Phone Number - Whether people will be able to see your phone number
- Added By Phone - Whether people can add you to their contact list by your phone number
For each of these, you have 8 modes (rules):
- All telegram users
- Your contacts only
- Only selected users
- Everyone from a certain chat
- Everyone except your contacts
- Everyone except selected users
- Everyone except users from a certain chat
- Nobody
To set any of these, you need a key to work on and a list of values, which will be a global rule, such as InputPrivacyValueAllowAll
and exceptions, such as allowing or disallowing specific users.
Last seen example
To allow no one except "@best_friend" to see your last seen, you would use this:
from telethon import TelegramClient
from telethon.tl.functions.account import SetPrivacyRequest
from telethon.tl.types import InputPrivacyKeyStatusTimestamp, InputPrivacyValueAllowUsers,\
InputPrivacyValueDisallowAll
client = TelegramClient(session, api_id, api_hash).start()
bff = client.get_input_entity('@best_friend')
key = InputPrivacyKeyStatusTimestamp() # working with last seen privacy
rule = InputPrivacyValueDisallowAll() # main rule is to disallow everyone
exceptions = InputPrivacyValueAllowUsers([bff]) # more people can be allowed
values = [rule, exceptions]
client(SetPrivacyRequest(key, values))