Telegram Bots: secret chats possible?

Question

Telegram offers "secret chats". Is it possible that a bot opens a secret chat and sends a message? I could not find any method or parameter for this function.

Freshet

Answer 1

Telegram's Bot API does not support secret chats at the moment. You can read the documentation, but a short explanation is: end-to-end encryption is used in secret chats which is tricky to implement for bots and requires additional work.

There's no word on when it'll be supported, if ever. At any rate, Telegram Bots are generally meant as a useful aid or for fun, not for sensitive things like financial transactions.

Murdocca

Thank you for your insight. Do you know if the situation has changed in the meanwhile? – Cream

Financial transactions are now supported using a dedicated API. core.telegram.org/bots/payments – Cream

It will be great if there is any mean allows bot to send messages individually. Suppose that a company need to contact with one of their clients. – Cozenage

Answer 2

I know this is too late, but following the post, I found out they support for secret chat API REST API . You can check if still interested.

Capriole

I got excited upon reading your answer, but unfortunately methods such as messages.sendEncrypted throw an error "400: This method can't be used by a bot" – Violaviolable