GetMessageAuthorRequest

Both users and bots may be able to use this request. See code examples.

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channels.getMessageAuthor#ece2a0e6 channel:InputChannel id:int = User

Returns

User

This type can be an instance of either:

UserUserEmpty

Parameters

channelInputChannelAnything entity-like will work if the library can find its Input version (e.g., usernames, Peer, User or Channel objects, etc.).
idint

Known RPC errors

This request can't cause any RPC error as far as we know.

Example

from telethon.sync import TelegramClient
from telethon import functions, types

with TelegramClient(name, api_id, api_hash) as client:
    result = client(functions.channels.GetMessageAuthorRequest(
        channel='username',
        id=42
    ))
    print(result.stringify())