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Chats
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.. currentmodule:: telethon
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The term :term:`chat` is extremely overloaded, so it's no surprise many are confused by what it means.
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This section should hopefully clear that up.
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Telethon Chat
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The word :term:`chat` in Telethon is used to refer a place where messages are sent to.
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Therefore, a Telethon :term:`chat` can be another user, a bot, a group, or a broadcast channel.
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All of those are places where messages can be sent.
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Of course, chats do more things than contain messages.
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They often have a name, username, photo, description, and other information.
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When a :term:`chat` appears in a parameter or as a property,
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it means that it will be either a :class:`~types.User`, :class:`~types.Group` or :class:`~types.Channel`.
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When a parameter must be "chat-like", it means Telethon will accept anything that can be "converted" to a :term:`chat`.
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The following types are chat-like:
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* The ``'me'`` literal string. This represents the account that is logged in ("yourself").
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* An ``'@username'``. The at-sign ``@`` is optional. Note that links are not supported.
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* An ``'+1 23'`` phone number string. It must be an ``str`` and start with the plus-sign ``+`` character.
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* An ``123`` integer identifier. It must be an ``int`` and cannot be negative.
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* An existing :class:`~types.User`, :class:`~types.Group` or :class:`~types.Channel`.
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* A :class:`~types.PackedChat`.
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Previous versions of Telethon referred to this term as "entity" or "entities" instead.
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Telegram Chat
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The Telegram API is very confusing when it comes to the word "chat".
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You only need to know about this if you plan to use the :term:`Raw API`.
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In the :term:`TL` schema definitions, there are two boxed types, :tl:`User` and :tl:`Chat`.
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A boxed :tl:`User` can only be the bare :tl:`user`, but the boxed :tl:`Chat` can be either a bare :tl:`chat` or a bare :tl:`channel`.
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A bare :tl:`chat` always refers to small groups.
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A bare :tl:`channel` can have either the ``broadcast`` or the ``megagroup`` flag set to :data:`True`.
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A bare :tl:`channel` with the ``broadcast`` flag set to :data:`True` is known as a broadcast channel.
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A bare :tl:`channel` with the ``megagroup`` flag set to :data:`True` is known as a supergroup.
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A bare :tl:`chat` has less features available than a bare :tl:`channel` ``megagroup``.
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Official clients are very good at hiding this difference.
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They will implicitly convert bare :tl:`chat` to bare :tl:`channel` ``megagroup`` when doing certain operations.
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Doing things like setting a username is actually a two-step process (migration followed by updating the username).
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Official clients transparently merge the history of migrated :tl:`channel` with their old :tl:`chat`.
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In Telethon:
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* A :class:`~types.User` always corresponds to :tl:`user`.
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* A :class:`~types.Group` represents either a :tl:`chat` or a :tl:`channel` ``megagroup``.
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* A :class:`~types.Channel` represents a :tl:`channel` ``broadcast``.
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Telethon classes aim to map to similar concepts in official applications.
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Bot API chat
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The Bot API follows a certain convention when it comes to identifiers:
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* User IDs are positive.
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* Chat IDs are negative.
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* Channel IDs are *also* negative, but are prefixed by ``-100``.
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Telethon encourages the use of :class:`~types.PackedChat` instead of naked identifiers.
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As a reminder, negative identifiers are not supported in Telethon's chat-like parameters.
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If you got an Bot API-style ID from somewhere else, you will need to explicitly say what type it is:
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.. code-block:: python
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# If -1001234 is your ID...
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from telethon.types import PackedChat, PackedType
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chat = PackedChat(PackedType.BROADCAST, 1234, None)
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# ...you need to explicitly create a PackedChat with id=1234 and set the corresponding type (a channel).
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# The access hash (see below) will be ``None``, which may or may not work.
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Encountering chats
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The way you encounter chats in Telethon is no different from official clients.
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If you:
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* …have joined a group or channel, or have sent private messages to some user, you can :meth:`~Client.get_dialogs`.
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* …know the user is in your contact list, you can :meth:`~Client.get_contacts`.
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* …know the user has a common chat with you, you can :meth:`~Client.get_participants` of the chat in common.
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* …know the username of the user, group, or channel, you can :meth:`~Client.resolve_username`.
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* …are a bot responding to users, you will be able to access the :attr:`types.Message.sender`.
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Chats access hash
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Users, supergroups and channels all need an :term:`access hash`.
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In Telethon, the :class:`~types.PackedChat` is the recommended way to deal with the identifier-hash pairs.
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This compact type can be used anywhere a chat is expected.
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It's designed to be easy to store and cache in any way your application chooses.
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Bot accounts can get away with an invalid :term:`access hash` for certain operations under certain conditions.
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The same is true for user accounts, although to a lesser extent.
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When using just the identifier to refer to a chat, Telethon will attempt to retrieve its hash from its in-memory cache.
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If this fails, an invalid hash will be used. This may or may not make the API call succeed.
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For this reason, it is recommended that you always use :class:`~types.PackedChat` instead.
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Remember that an :term:`access hash` is account-bound.
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You cannot obtain an :term:`access hash` in Account-A and use it in Account-B.
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