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- 1.1 Create your Telegram Bot
Telegram allows you to easily create your own Bot with the help of @BotFather.
Use the /newbot command to create a new bot.
The BotFather will ask you for a name and username, then generate an authorization token for your new bot.
The name of your bot is displayed in contact details and elsewhere.
The Username is a short name, to be used in mentions and telegram.me links. Usernames are 5-32 characters long and are case insensitive, but may only include Latin characters, numbers, and underscores.
Your bot's username must end in ‘bot’, e.g. ‘tetris_bot’ or ‘TetrisBot’.
The token is a string along the lines of 110201543:AAHdqTcvCH1vGWJxfSeofSAs0K5PALDsaw that is required to authorize the bot and send requests to the Bot API. Keep your token secure and store it safely, it can be used by anyone to control your bot.
- 1.2 Get Channel ID
First, from your Telegram client, create a channel and keep it public as you need to obtain the channel ID. Give a name @YourNewChannelName to your channel.
Next, from your Bot thread, go to the Bot parameters page. You should see that your Bot is in both Members and Administrators list.
The Bot is now ready to publish messages.
To get your channel ID, you just need to send a message to @YourNewChannelName from any web browser using your Bot API key :
Send: https://api.telegram.org/bot123456789:AABBCCDD_abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz/sendMessage?chat_id=@YourNewChannelName&text=FirstMessage
Answer: {"ok":true, "result":{"message_id":2, "chat":{"id":-1234567890123, "title":"Your Channel", "username":"YourNewChannelName", "type":"channel"}, "date":1483383169, "text":"FirstMessage"}}
You can see in the resulting JSON string that your new channel ID is -1234567890123.
You can now edit your Channel and convert its type to Private.
Your Bot can still send a message to the channel using the Channel ID