Telethon/readthedocs/extra/basic/creating-a-client.rst
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.. _creating-a-client:
=================
Creating a Client
=================
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 currently be changed later.
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 by default a database file using Python's ``sqlite3``.
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! Remember that any object returned by the API has
mentioned ``.stringify()`` method, and printing these might prove useful.
As a full example:
.. code-block:: python
client = TelegramClient('anon', api_id, api_hash)
assert client.connect()
if not client.is_user_authorized():
client.send_code_request(phone_number)
me = client.sign_in(phone_number, input('Enter code: '))
.. 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`__.
Two Factor Authorization (2FA)
******************************
If you have Two Factor Authorization (from now on, 2FA) enabled on your
account, calling :meth:`telethon.TelegramClient.sign_in` will raise a
`SessionPasswordNeededError`. When this happens, just
:meth:`telethon.TelegramClient.sign_in` again with a ``password=``:
.. code-block:: python
import getpass
from telethon.errors import SessionPasswordNeededError
client.sign_in(phone)
try:
client.sign_in(code=input('Enter code: '))
except SessionPasswordNeededError:
client.sign_in(password=getpass.getpass())
If you don't have 2FA enabled, but you would like to do so through Telethon,
take as example the following code snippet:
.. code-block:: python
import os
from hashlib import sha256
from telethon.tl.functions import account
from telethon.tl.types.account import PasswordInputSettings
new_salt = client(account.GetPasswordRequest()).new_salt
salt = new_salt + os.urandom(8) # new random salt
pw = 'secret'.encode('utf-8') # type your new password here
hint = 'hint'
pw_salted = salt + pw + salt
pw_hash = sha256(pw_salted).digest()
result = client(account.UpdatePasswordSettingsRequest(
current_password_hash=salt,
new_settings=PasswordInputSettings(
new_salt=salt,
new_password_hash=pw_hash,
hint=hint
)
))
Thanks to `Issue 259 <https://github.com/LonamiWebs/Telethon/issues/259>`_
for the tip!
__ https://github.com/Anorov/PySocks#installation
__ https://github.com/Anorov/PySocks#usage-1%3E