Read telegram channel messages

Question

So I need to read all new messages of one specific channel that I'm in (not as an admin). I searched for different client apis (.NET, PHP, nodejs) but none of them helped.

Do you have any idea how I could do this?

Thanks!

Decathlon

Well that's the problem. Reading channel messages is really the only thing I want to do so i was hoping for a telegram client in C#, VB, PHP, Java or Nodejs that I can use for this. – Decathlon

See this answer. – Flub

Answer 1

Here is how i did it :

Install Telegram https://github.com/vysheng/tg

Install Cli wraper https://github.com/luckydonald/pytg

from pytg import Telegram
from pytg.utils import coroutine
tg      = Telegram(  telegram="./tg/bin/telegram-cli", pubkey_file="./tg/tg-server.pub")
receiver    = tg.receiver
QUIT = False
@coroutine
def main_loop():
  try:
    while not QUIT:
      msg = (yield) # it waits until it got a message, stored now in msg.
      if msg.text is None:
        continue
      print(msg.event)
      print(msg.text)
  except GeneratorExit:
    pass
  except KeyboardInterrupt:
    pass
  else:
    pass

receiver.start()
receiver.message(main_loop())   

NodeJS version :

const path = require('path');
const TelegramAPI = require('tg-cli-node');
const config = {
    telegram_cli_path: path.join(__dirname, 'tg/bin/telegram-cli'), //path to tg-cli (see https://github.com/vysheng/tg)
    telegram_cli_socket_path: path.join(__dirname, 'socket'), // path for socket file
    server_publickey_path: path.join(__dirname, 'tg/tg-server.pub'), // path to server key (traditionally, in %tg_cli_path%/tg-server.pub)
}

const Client = new TelegramAPI(config)

Client.connect(connection => {
    connection.on('message', message => {
        console.log('message : ', message)
        console.log('message event : ', message.event)
        console.log('message text : ', message.text)        
        console.log('message from :', message.from)
    })
    connection.on('error', e => {
        console.log('Error from Telegram API:', e)
    })
    connection.on('disconnect', () => {
        console.log('Disconnected from Telegram API')
    })
})

Endoskeleton

is there a way to receive posts from a specific channel using pytg. – Hetaera

@Endoskeleton where is the channel you are receiving messages from? Or are you only receiving direct messages? – Riyal

what is the socket file? – Aroma

Answer 2

Try Telethon. https://github.com/LonamiWebs/Telethon It allows you to read messages as telegram user.

Compensable

any affiliation? /help/promotion – Surratt

Answer 3

First step is to add the telegram bot as channel admin if not you can't read channel messages!!!

Morale

If ypu can use python then you may wish to use telethon – Hypergolic