Telegram bots read channel updates

Question

As telegram bots reads groups updates, is there any way to read channel updates also?

Solution 1

At the moment, Telegram Bots API doesn't allow bots to receive messages in channels, so it is not possible to read them (unless you use a Telegram API one.

Update

Since November update, the api now supports channel post and edition updates.

Solution 2

for not your channel: if the channel is public, you can scrape from html code with address : https://t.me/s/ChannelName/messageId if the channel is private, nothing to do

for your channel: you can create a dummy group, then request 'forwardMessage' to forward from channel to dummy group

Comments

[mohammad falahat]

@Slavik I did it but bot couldn't read channel updates.

[SoheilYou]

How can I join my bot into channels to get thier updates (channels which I am not thier admin) ?

[Ruben Bermudez]

At the moment, bots can only be added as admins to channels

[Giuseppe Lodi Rizzini]

Is there a way to get updates from a channel (not mine but where I am a subscriber) for every messages added? There are a lot of commercial bot that works but don't understand how they work