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Creating a Client
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Before working with Telegram's API, you need to get your own API ID and hash:
1. Follow `this link <https://my.telegram.org/>`_ and login with your phone number.
2. Click under API Development tools.
3. A *Create new application* window will appear. Fill in your application details.
There is no need to enter any *URL*, and only the first two fields (*App title* and *Short name*)
can be changed later as far as I'm aware.
4. Click on *Create application* at the end. Remember that your **API hash is secret**
and Telegram won't let you revoke it. Don't post it anywhere!
Once that's ready, the next step is to create a ``TelegramClient``.
This class will be your main interface with Telegram's API, and creating one is very simple:
.. code-block:: python
from telethon import TelegramClient
# Use your own values here
api_id = 12345
api_hash = '0123456789abcdef0123456789abcdef'
phone_number = '+34600000000'
client = TelegramClient('some_name', api_id, api_hash)
Note that ``'some_name'`` will be used to save your session (persistent information such as access key and others)
as ``'some_name.session'`` in your disk. This is simply a JSON file which you can (but shouldn't) modify.
Before using the client, you must be connected to Telegram. Doing so is very easy:
``client.connect() # Must return True, otherwise, try again``
You may or may not be authorized yet. You must be authorized before you're able to send any request:
``client.is_user_authorized() # Returns True if you can send requests``
If you're not authorized, you need to ``.sign_in()``:
.. code-block:: python
client.send_code_request(phone_number)
myself = client.sign_in(phone_number, input('Enter code: '))
# If .sign_in raises PhoneNumberUnoccupiedError, use .sign_up instead
# If .sign_in raises SessionPasswordNeeded error, call .sign_in(password=...)
# You can import both exceptions from telethon.errors.
``myself`` is your Telegram user.
You can view all the information about yourself by doing ``print(myself.stringify())``.
You're now ready to use the client as you wish!
.. note::
If you want to use a **proxy**, you have to `install PySocks`__ (via pip or manual)
and then set the appropriated parameters:
.. code-block:: python
import socks
client = TelegramClient('session_id',
api_id=12345, api_hash='0123456789abcdef0123456789abcdef',
proxy=(socks.SOCKS5, 'localhost', 4444)
)
The ``proxy=`` argument should be a tuple, a list or a dict,
consisting of parameters described `here`__.
__ https://github.com/Anorov/PySocks#installation
__ https://github.com/Anorov/PySocks#usage-1%3E