Hello! The burning question today: How to find out the chat id of a group or channel in Telegram? There are two answers to it 🙂

Open the browser and enter the link there: https://api.telegram.org/botTOKEN/getChat?chat_id=@link_to_channel_or_group where: – TOKEN is your bot’s token in Telegram. After that you get something like:

{"ok":true,"result":{"id":-1001132497917,"title":"PiratBook","username":"piratbookgroup","type":"supergroup","active_usernames":["piratbookgroup"],"description":"\u041f\u043e\u0434\u0440\u043e\u0431\u043d\u043e\u0441\u0442\u0438 \u0432 \u043c\u043e\u0435\u043c \u0431\u043b\u043e\u0433\u0435:  https://lavrynenko.com\n\n\u0413\u0440\u0443\u043f\u043f\u0430 \u0441\u043e\u0437\u0434\u0430\u043d\u0430 \u043a\u0430\u043a \u0437\u0435\u0440\u043a\u0430\u043b\u043e \u0434\u043b\u044f \u0424\u043b\u0438\u0431\u0443\u0441\u0442\u0430-\u0431\u043e\u0442\u0430 (\u043a \u0441\u043e\u0436\u0430\u043b\u0435\u043d\u0438\u044e, \u043e\u043d \u0437\u0430\u0431\u043b\u043e\u043a\u0438\u0440\u043e\u0432\u0430\u043d \u0434\u043b\u044f \u043c\u043e\u0431\u0438\u043b\u044c\u043d\u044b\u0445 \u0443\u0441\u0442\u0440\u043e\u0439\u0441\u0442\u0432, \u043d\u043e \u0432 \u0434\u0430\u043d\u043d\u043e\u043c \u0441\u043b\u0443\u0447\u0430\u0435 - \u043e\u0442\u043b\u0438\u0447\u043d\u043e \u0440\u0430\u0431\u043e\u0442\u0430\u0435\u0442).\n\n\u0412\u0441\u0435 \u0432\u043e\u043f\u0440\u043e\u0441\u044b - \u043f\u043e\u0436\u0430\u043b\u0443\u0439\u0441\u0442\u0430, \u043d\u0430 \u043f\u043e\u0447\u0442\u0443: oleksiy@lavrynenko.com","permissions":{"can_send_messages":true,"can_send_media_messages":false,"can_send_polls":false,"can_send_other_messages":false,"can_add_web_page_previews":false,"can_change_info":false,"can_invite_users":true,"can_pin_messages":false,"can_manage_topics":true},"join_to_send_messages":true,"photo":{"small_file_id":"AQADAgADbrcxGw3jwEsACAIAAwNk2ucW____Y5X6fQi25dIrBA","small_file_unique_id":"AQADbrcxGw3jwEsAAQ","big_file_id":"AQADAgADbrcxGw3jwEsACAMAAwNk2ucW____Y5X6fQi25dIrBA","big_file_unique_id":"AQADbrcxGw3jwEsB"},"message_auto_delete_time":86400}}

where the most important text for you is: ID.

As you can see, everything is simple. Or you can … just go to this link (I sprinkled it in 10 minutes, so forgive me already – there is no particular beauty), enter a link to the channel or group you need (with a dog, please 😉 – lazily compose a regular season), and in half a second you will receive result. You decide.

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