How to obtain user chat_id in Telegram bot API? The documentation says Integer Unique identifier for the message recipient — User or GroupChat id asked Jun 26, 2015 at 1716 Ameer MousaviAmeer Mousavi1,2751 gold badge16 silver badges21 bronze badges 3 The message updates you receive via getUpdates or your webhook will contain the chat ID for the specific message. It will be contained under the key. This seems like the only way you are able to retrieve the chat ID. So if you want to write something where the bot initiates the conversation you will probably have to store the chat ID in relation to the user in some sort of key->value store like MemCache or Redis. I believe their documentation suggests something similar here, You can use deep-linking to initiate a conversation without requiring the user to type a message first. answered Jun 26, 2015 at 2050 Chris BrandChris Brand1,94216 silver badges9 bronze badges 7 I created a bot to get User or GroupChat id, just send the /my_id to telegram bot get_id_bot. It does not only work for user chat ID, but also for group chat ID. To get group chat ID, first you have to add the bot to the group, then send /my_id in the group. Here's the link to the bot. answered May 23, 2016 at 1716 fredy kardianfredy kardian6581 gold badge6 silver badges13 bronze badges 14 First, post a message in a chat where your bot is included channel, group mentioning the bot, or one-to-one chat. Then, just run curl jq Feel free to remove the jq part if your dont have jq installed, it's only useful for pretty printing. You should get something like this You can see the chat ID in the returned json object, together with the chat name and associated message. answered Apr 14, 2020 at 1913 4 There is a bot that echoes your chat id upon starting a conversation. Just search for chatid_echo_bot and tap /start. It will echo your chat id. Another option is getidsbot which gives you much more information. This bot also gives information about a forwarded message from user, to user, chad ids, etc if you forward the message to the bot. answered Feb 22, 2019 at 116 ramazan polatramazan polat7,0341 gold badge48 silver badges76 bronze badges 4 You can just share the contact with your bot and, via /getUpdates, you get the "contact" object answered Dec 23, 2015 at 1648 IanIan2,9441 gold badge18 silver badges19 bronze badges Using the Perl API you can get it this way first you send a message to the bot from Telegram, then issue a getUpdates and the chat id must be there !/usr/bin/perl use DataDumper; use WWWTelegramBotAPI; my $TOKEN = 'blablabla'; my $api = WWWTelegramBotAPI->new token => $TOKEN or die "I can't connect"; my $out = $api->api_request 'getUpdates'; warn Dumper$out; my $chat_id = $out->{result}->[0]->{message}->{chat}->{id}; print "chat_id=$chat_id\n"; The id should be in chat_id but it may depend of the result, so I also added a dump of the whole result. You can install the Perl API from It depends on your system but I installed easily running this on my Linux server $ sudo cpan WWWTelegramBotAPI Hope this helps answered Jul 27, 2015 at 935 chat_id is nothing but id of user telegram user account id. You can start a chat with get_my_chat_id_bot. It will send you back the chat_id your user_id. There are following commonly used ids channel id, group id, bot id, chat iduser id. answered Feb 7, 2022 at 808 KawaiKxKawaiKx9,50819 gold badges72 silver badges111 bronze badges 1 Straight out from the documentation Suppose the website would like to send notifications to its users via a Telegram bot. Here's what they could do to enable notifications for a user with the ID 123. Create a bot with a suitable username, ExampleComBot Set up a webhook for incoming messages Generate a random string of a sufficient length, $memcache_key = "vCH1vGWJxfSeofSAs0K5PA" Put the value 123 with the key $memcache_key into Memcache for 3600 seconds one hour Show our user the button Configure the webhook processor to query Memcached with the parameter that is passed in incoming messages beginning with /start. If the key exists, record the chat_id passed to the webhook as telegram_chat_id for the user 123. Remove the key from Memcache. Now when we want to send a notification to the user 123, check if they have the field telegram_chat_id. If yes, use the sendMessage method in the Bot API to send them a message in Telegram. answered Nov 25, 2019 at 948 roneoroneo1,16913 silver badges22 bronze badges Whenever user communicate with bot it send information like below $response = { "update_id"640046715, "message"{ "message_id"1665, "from"{"id"108177xxxx,"is_bot"false,"first_name""Suresh","last_name""Kamrushi","language_code""en"}, "chat"{"id"108xxxxxx,"first_name""Suresh","last_name""Kamrushi","type""private"}, "date"1604381276, "text""1" } } So you can access chat it like $update["message"]["chat"]["id"] Assuming you are using PHP. answered Dec 30, 2020 at 630 Suresh KamrushiSuresh gold badges73 silver badges90 bronze badges Extending Roberto Santalla answer and if you prefer to use Telegram API together with javascript and axios library then you might want the following const method = 'get' const headers any = { 'Access-Control-Allow-Origin' '*', 'Content-Type' 'application/json', timestamp +new Date, } const options = { headers { ...headers } } const urlTelegramBase = ' const urlGetUpdates = `${urlTelegramBase}/getUpdates` const username = 'user_name' const { data { result messages }, } = await axios[method]urlGetUpdates, options const chat_id = messageBlock => === username . chat_id answered Mar 13, 2022 at 2134 gold badges91 silver badges96 bronze badges DO NOT USE third party BOTS, they will hack your account later on. Just look up your bot in telegram and start a chat, then use this link It will return obj with chatId. answered Apr 6 at 2152 BayramBayram1812 silver badges11 bronze badges