The api_id/api_hash combination is invalid (caused by SendCodeRequest)

[geeklingo]

With newer bots, this issue seems to have returned. If the bot api was recently created (9-digits) the code no longer works and gives the following error:

Traceback (most recent call last): File "cbt.py", line 51, in <module> telegramClient.start() File "/usr/lib64/python3.6/site-packages/telethon/client/auth.py", line 114, in start else self.loop.run_until_complete(coro) File "/usr/lib64/python3.6/asyncio/base_events.py", line 468, in run_until_complete return future.result() File "/usr/lib64/python3.6/site-packages/telethon/client/auth.py", line 148, in _start sent_code = await self.send_code_request(phone, force_sms=force_sms) File "/usr/lib64/python3.6/site-packages/telethon/client/auth.py", line 374, in send_code_request phone, self.api_id, self.api_hash)) File "/usr/lib64/python3.6/site-packages/telethon/client/users.py", line 60, in __call__ result = await future telethon.errors.rpcerrorlist.ApiIdInvalidError: The api_id/api_hash combination is invalid (caused by SendCodeRequest) Unclosed client session client_session: <aiohttp.client.ClientSession object at 0x7fa9f65b8128>

Using the same code but older bot API (6-digits) it works fine.

[Lonami]

There's not much we can do to solve that besides Telegram fixing it.

[Lonami]

#836 has more details.