How to get Telegram Bot Chat ID?
Create a Telegram Bot and get a Bot Token
- Open Telegram application then search for
@BotFather
- Click Start
- Click Menu -> /newbot or type
/newbot
and hit Send - Follow the instruction until we get message like so
Done! Congratulations on your new bot. You will find it at t.me/new_bot.
You can now add a description.....
Use this token to access the HTTP API:
63xxxxxx71:AAFoxxxxn0hwA-2TVSxxxNf4c
Keep your token secure and store it safely, it can be used by anyone to control your bot.
For a description of the Bot API, see this page: https://core.telegram.org/bots/api
- So here is our bot token
63xxxxxx71:AAFoxxxxn0hwA-2TVSxxxNf4c
(make sure we don't share it to anyone).
Get Chat ID for a Private Chat
- Search and open our new Telegram bot
- Click Start or send a message
- Open this URL in a browser
https://api.telegram.org/bot{our_bot_token}/getUpdates
- See we need to prefix our token with a word
bot
- Eg:
https://api.telegram.org/bot63xxxxxx71:AAFoxxxxn0hwA-2TVSxxxNf4c/getUpdates
- See we need to prefix our token with a word
- We will see a json like so
{
"ok": true,
"result": [
{
"update_id": 83xxxxx35,
"message": {
"message_id": 2643,
"from": {...},
"chat": {
"id": 21xxxxx38,
"first_name": "...",
"last_name": "...",
"username": "@username",
"type": "private"
},
"date": 1703062972,
"text": "/start"
}
}
]
}
- Check the value of
result.0.
message.chat.id
, and here is our Chat ID:21xxxxx38
- Let's try to send a message:
https://api.telegram.org/bot63xxxxxx71:AAFoxxxxn0hwA-2TVSxxxNf4c/sendMessage?chat_id=21xxxxx38&text=test123
- When we set the bot token and chat id correctly, the message
test123
should be arrived on our Telegram bot chat.
Get Chat ID for a Channel
- Add our Telegram bot into a channel
- Send a message to the channel
- Open this URL
https://api.telegram.org/bot{our_bot_token}/getUpdates
- We will see a json like so
{
"ok": true,
"result": [
{
"update_id": 838xxxx36,
"channel_post": {...},
"chat": {
"id": -1001xxxxxx062,
"title": "....",
"type": "channel"
},
"date": 1703065989,
"text": "test"
}
}
]
}
- Check the value of
result.0.channel_post.chat.id
, and here is our Chat ID:-1001xxxxxx062
- Let's try to send a message:
https://api.telegram.org/bot63xxxxxx71:AAFoxxxxn0hwA-2TVSxxxNf4c/sendMessage?chat_id=-1001xxxxxx062&text=test123
- When we set the bot token and chat id correctly, the message
test123
should be arrived on our Telegram channel.
Get Chat ID for a Group Chat
The easiest way to get a group chat ID is through a Telegram desktop application.
- Open Telegram in a desktop app
- Add our Telegram bot into a chat group
- Send a message to the chat group
- Right click on the message and click
Copy Message Link
- We will get a link like so:
https://t.me/c/194xxxx987/11/13
- The pattern:
https://t.me/c/{group_chat_id}/{group_topic_id}/{message_id}
- So here is our Chat ID:
194xxxx987
- We will get a link like so:
- To use the group chat ID in the API, we need to prefix it with the number
-100
, like so:-100194xxxx987
- Now let's try to send a message:
https://api.telegram.org/bot63xxxxxx71:AAFoxxxxn0hwA-2TVSxxxNf4c/sendMessage?chat_id=-100194xxxx987&text=test123
- When we set the bot token and chat id correctly, the message
test123
should be arrived on our group chat.
Get Chat ID for a Topic in a Group Chat
In order to send a message to a specific topic on Telegram group, we need to get the topic ID.
- Similar to steps above, after we click the
Copy Message Link
, we will get a link like:https://t.me/c/194xxxx987/11/13
, so the group Topic ID is11
. - Now we can use it like so (see
message_thread_id
):https://api.telegram.org/bot783114779:AAEuRWDTFD2UQ7agBtFSuhJf2-NmvHN3OPc/sendMessage?chat_id=-100194xxxx987&message_thread_id=11&text=test123
- When we set the bot token and chat id correctly, the message
test123
should be arrived inside our group chat topic.
Updated on: 03/06/2025
Thank you!