Sending a message from Python to a Telegram chat: the simplest way

python send telegram message — Send message from Python to Telegram bot.

In this article, I will present the simplest way to send a message to a Telegram using Python.

To send the message you first have to:

Create a Telegram BOT via BotFather
Get your BOT_API_TOKEN key and CHAT_ID
$ pip install requests

Provided that you did the above, now you can send a message to your bot by issuing an HTTP GET or POST request to the Telegram BOT API at the following URL:

https://api.telegram.org/bot<BOT_API_TOKEN>/sendMessage?chat_id=<CHAT_ID>&text=<YOUR_MESSAGE_TEXT>

where:

BOT_API_TOKEN is the API Key generated by BotFather when you created your bot
CHAT_ID unique identifier for the target chat or username of the target channel (in the format @channelusername)
YOUR_MESSAGE_TEXT text of the message to be sent (URL-encoded)

All code in Python looks like this:

import requestsCHAT_ID = insert_your_chat_id
BOT_API_TOKEN = insert_your_bot_api_token
url = 'https://api.telegram.org/bot'message = 'Hello world!'

params = {'chat_id': CHAT_ID, 'text': message}
response = requests.get(url + BOT_API_TOKEN + '/sendMessage', params=params)

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