How to send a message to your Telegram channel by Python?

Without any preface, let’s get straight to the point. Consider you’re a Python programmer and you have a channel within Telegram. You want to write a code to send a message to the channel. Is it possible? Sure. In this topic I’ll show you how to do that.

Initially you must do 2 things:
1. Create a bot via official bot (ID: “BotFather”) withinTelegram and then adding it to your channel as an administrator
2. Using Telegram official API to send your message

First one is pretty simple and you can do it as the instruction has been said within the bot I’ve said.
But I want to show you how to use the Telegram official API in Python. You need to be aware of “requests” module in Python for sending requests to the URL I refer to.

Python Codes Structure

First import “requests” module:

import requests

Next declare a variable for your bot API. This API is unique and displayed when you create a new bot within the “BotFather”:

telegramApiKey = ‘YOUR_BOT_API’

Then use “requests” module for requesting to the URL below. This URL needs 2 parameters:
1. “chat_id” — Which is your channel ID
2. “text” — Which is your text you want to send to your channel

telegramResult = requests.get(f’https://api.telegram.org/bot{telegramApiKey}/sendMessage', params={
 “chat_id”: “@YOUR_CHANNEL_ID”,
 “text”: “YOUR_TEXT”
 })

After that you can print the request output and see its status: