It's awesome how google something can be annoying when you can't find the right words. I found a million answers on how about to create a Telegram Bot to send and receive messages, and it's easy as write maybe five code lines.
But how about managing my own account? I want to know if it it's posible, using Python (telepot or other library), to retrieve my personal messages and send messages from my PERSONAL account, not using a bot.
If it's possible, where can I find more information about that
Telegram has a thorough and documented public API.
Following some links from there, here is the summary of the relevant parts:
getMessages
and sendMessage
, that should be what you need;Among the examples, if you go the the Python part, they recommend:
If you use modern Python >= 3.6, take a look at python-telegram.
You'll find instructions to use the library, and in the examples folder you can find a script to send a message.
I'll copy it here for the sake of completeness:
import logging
import argparse
from utils import setup_logging
from telegram.client import Telegram
"""
Sends a message to a chat
Usage:
python examples/send_message.py api_id api_hash phone chat_id text
"""
if __name__ == '__main__':
setup_logging(level=logging.INFO)
parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
parser.add_argument('api_id', help='API id') # https://my.telegram.org/apps
parser.add_argument('api_hash', help='API hash')
parser.add_argument('phone', help='Phone')
parser.add_argument('chat_id', help='Chat id', type=int)
parser.add_argument('text', help='Message text')
args = parser.parse_args()
tg = Telegram(
api_id=args.api_id,
api_hash=args.api_hash,
phone=args.phone,
database_encryption_key='changeme1234',
)
# you must call login method before others
tg.login()
# if this is the first run, library needs to preload all chats
# otherwise the message will not be sent
result = tg.get_chats()
# `tdlib` is asynchronous, so `python-telegram` always returns you an `AsyncResult` object.
# You can wait for a result with the blocking `wait` method.
result.wait()
if result.error:
print(f'get chats error: {result.error_info}')
else:
print(f'chats: {result.update}')
result = tg.send_message(
chat_id=args.chat_id,
text=args.text,
)
result.wait()
if result.error:
print(f'send message error: {result.error_info}')
else:
print(f'message has been sent: {result.update}')
Of course you'll need to explore the documentation to get what are all those variables / ids in your case, but it will get you started!
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