[QUESTION] Send a simple message on a channel

[alexandrebouttier]

Hello, I'm a little lost in the doc, I would just like to send a message on a channel, could someone give me a complete example with the right imports etc, thanks

[Bibo-Joshi]

from telegram import Bot

bot = Bot('TOKEN')
bot.send_message(channel_id, message)

[alexandrebouttier]

I come across this error ImportError: cannot import name 'Bot' from partially initialized module 'telegram' (most likely due to a circular import

from telegram import Bot

channel_id="@mychanel"
bot = Bot('mytoken')
bot.send_message(channel_id, "test") 

[Bibo-Joshi]

then telegram is not the module provided by python-telegram-bot. Make sure not to name any files or directories of your bot telegram.

[alexandrebouttier]

I no longer have the tax error, create a virtual environment, but now I come across this error while I am using the right channel

telegram.error.BadRequest: Chat not found

[Bibo-Joshi]

That means that you're either passing the wrong chat_id or that the bot does not have write permissions for that chat.

[alexandrebouttier]

i followed this to get the channel number https://gist.github.com/mraaroncruz/e76d19f7d61d59419002db54030ebe35

[Bibo-Joshi]

is the bot admin of that channel? if not, it can't send messages to it

[alexandrebouttier]

thanks