Should I be worried about a Telegram bot I interacted with?
I recently used a Telegram bot which is meant to randomly connect users to have “anonymous”, one-on-one conversations with each other. The bot profile doesn't show much information, other than a brief description of what it does and the username of a so-called “support” account.Upon starting the bot, different commands are available and one of them redirects the user to a Terms and Conditions' web page for this bot. In the privacy section, the developer or whoever redacted that document (it has grammatical mistakes) states something along the lines of the bot collecting or saving user ID, first and last names and the phone number of whoever connects to it. This document also states that in order to fully delete a user's bot account (or info), the “support” account must be contacted within Telegram.How dangerous or risky could this kind of bot be? How shady or normal is it that a bot has access to such details? What should I do if I made a mistake using the bot? I had read this article by Wired before and was wondering if I should be worried, because I feel anxious about having used, it especially for the collection-of-user-ID problem, which I think gives the developer power to track my account regardless of whether I change names, usernames or phone number, and who knows what else that knowledge grants him or her, but I'd like to know if it's normal for a good Telegram bot to know that.Thank you for reading my post.
Submitted January 03, 2023 at 02:47AM by PossibleNebula6395
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Telegram not giving notifications for secret chats
My partner and I use telegram for messaging, we have both a regular chat and a secret chat, up until recently he was using Telegram X and receiving notifications for both chats fine. When he swapped back to Telegram on his phone his phone is only giving him notifications for the general chats and not the secret one.We have tried resetting all the notifications on both the app level and on android, also tried making Telegram notifications a priority but still the notifications won't pop for the secret chats, however they show up in the Android notification history, but not the notification shade and there's no buzz or sound.Any ideas?
Submitted January 03, 2023 at 03:08AM by teenywhispers
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Can I see the total number of times photos I have in a channel of mine and share get downloaded?
I know there are some stats in the channel itself but I haven't found a way to see the amount of times pictures are downloaded
Submitted January 03, 2023 at 03:34AM by LilNailClipper
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How do I fix this, the group has no pornographic content in it?
https://i.redd.it/sb8cw9qq0t9a1.jpg
Submitted January 03, 2023 at 06:19AM by fhatboi
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1744 groups and channels related to child abuse banned on January, 2.
Total this month: 2917
Report child abuse using the in-app 'Report' button or to stopCA@telegram.org.

258 terrorist bots and channels banned on January, 2.
Total this month: 450
Report terrorist content using the in-app 'Report' button or to abuse@telegram.org.

Finding Telegram Channel/ Group
Hello Everyone, Please is there a way to find or locate a telegram channel from a video i downloaded? I recently viewed a channel and downloaded a video but i can't remember the channel name. I was wondering if one can find the channel through the video title name or something, what I mean by title is: there are some numbers allocated to a video after downloading it starts with e.g 4_56667388 e.t.c this just a sample. I'm using Android btw. Thank you.Note: i tried posting this in r/ Telegram Channel but i can't access it so i posted it here
Submitted January 03, 2023 at 11:48AM by leebaneel
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Problem to send Table!
Hi i have problem with send a table:​

$header = ['Columna 1', 'Columna 2']; $rows = [ ['Fila 1 Celda 1', 'Fila 1 Celda 2'], ['Fila 2 Celda 1', 'Fila 2 Celda 2'], ['Fila 3 Celda 1', 'Fila 3 Celda 2'], ]; $client->request('POST', "https://api.telegram.org/botYOUR_BOT_TOKEN/sendMessage", [ 'json' => [ 'chat_id' => $chatId, 'text' => 'The table:', 'content' => [ 'type' => 'table', 'header' => $header, 'rows' => $rows ] ] ]); 

now when i send this... i recive 1 message:"The table:"​and no appear the table xD... any can help me please?
Submitted January 03, 2023 at 04:11PM by Best-Mushroom404
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TG Premium sucks
I am a subscriber of Telegram Premium. I don't know where have they messed up but I am shown as online 24x7 to other devices/Telegram accounts even when I am not. I have tried contacting their customer support only to find that there is no customer support. The entire customer support is run by volunteers who don't give a rat's ass to your queries. It has been 10+days and still no response from them.​I had to switch my last seen to 'nobody' because of this and now it doesn't show me online. But I want to keep my last seen visible to everyone. But then it would again start showing me online 24x7.​Can anyone here help me out? Can any other TG premium subscriber confirm this issue as I believe this is happeneing with us only. I do not have any other person near me with a subscription so I can't confirm.​If it helps, I am using TG on my an other device (laptop too) but I did close the app and still it showed me online.
Submitted January 03, 2023 at 07:58AM by Last-Word-9371
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[python-telegram-bot] How can I get a bot to receive two messages without looping through the MessageHandler function?
Here is a simple telegram bot I made:

import logging from telegram.ext import ApplicationBuilder, ContextTypes, CommandHandler, MessageHandler, filters from telegram import Update from recommend_book import recommend_book import os with open('.token', 'r') as f: token = f.readlines()[0].strip() # info for the book to get recommendation for id = [] title = [] logging.basicConfig( format='%(asctime)s - %(name)s - %(levelname)s - %(message)s', level=logging.INFO ) async def start(update: Update, context: ContextTypes.DEFAULT_TYPE): await context.bot.send_message( text = 'Search for your book here: http://192.168.0.23:5454 and send me the ID', chat_id = update.effective_chat.id ) async def get_book(update: Update, context: ContextTypes.DEFAULT_TYPE): id.append(update.message.text) await context.bot.send_message( text = 'What is the title of the book?', chat_id = update.effective_chat.id ) title.append(update.message.text) await recommend_book(title[0], id[0]) await context.bot.send_message( text = '/recommendation', chat_id = update.effective_chat.id ) async def recommendation(update: Update, context: ContextTypes.DEFAULT_TYPE): with open(f'recommendation.txt', 'r') as f: book = f.readlines()[0] await context.bot.send_message( text = book, chat_id = update.effective_chat.id ) os.remove('recommendation.txt') while title: title.pop() while id: id.pop() if __name__ == '__main__': application = ApplicationBuilder().token(token).build() start_handler = CommandHandler('start', start) application.add_handler(start_handler) recommendation_handler = CommandHandler('recommendation', recommendation) application.add_handler(recommendation_handler) book_handler = MessageHandler(filters.TEXT, get_book) application.add_handler(book_handler) application.run_polling() 

The bot has someone open a database of books and choose a book they like and send the bot the id. Then the bot sends them a recommendation for a similar book. It requires the user to send both an id and title for the book.The flow is as such.

1) user sends '/start' command 2) bot responds with link to database 3) user sends the id (an integer) 4) bot responds asking for the title 5) user sends the title (a string) 6) bot responds with a link to the '/recommendation' command 7) user clicks '/recommendation' command 8) bot sends the title of a book as a recommendation (a string) 

The only issue is that when the bot receives any text it calls get_book()
. The user sends the id and the bot receives it and saves it to id[0]
but then it calls get_book()
again in response to the text the user sent as the id. This means the bot never receives the title and therefore the recommend_book()
function fails.I need the bot to accept the first text message as the id and the second text message as the title. It should only call get_book()
in response to the initial text (the id).What am I doing wrong?
Submitted January 03, 2023 at 08:13PM by Pickinanameainteasy
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Suggested on 03.01.2023 19:29

Suggestion:

I want to change the order of the accounts on nicegram

It is the right time for Telegram to implement AI like chatGPT into a Bot that is capable of answering most of my questions. it will be the best thing a Premium user can get.
As we are entering the AI pandemic and language model, it will be a pleasure not to search for answers in a web browser and have the ability to do that inside Telegram. how do i convince the world this is the most awesome idea?
Submitted January 03, 2023 at 09:14PM by Taboli
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Telegram desktop does not open on certain networks
I can use telegram desktop when I'm connected to my home wifi and when I use the hotspot of my cellphone carrier A (I don't want to say names here).But when I use the hotspot of my cellphone carrier B then telegram desktop just opens with a white list of contacts and the loading circle thing.Can anyone tell me why this happens and how can I fix it?The telegram version I'm using is: Telegram Desktop Version 4.5.2 x64
Submitted January 03, 2023 at 09:50PM by milojarow
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If I reset my account, is my chat history deleted for my contacts as well?
I'm unable to get into my account due to 2fa and need to reset. I've been wanting to delete my chat history, but now that I can't get in I'm stuck. Will resetting it delete my chat history for the contacts I've communicated with as well?
Submitted January 03, 2023 at 11:32PM by crashmeifyoucan
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Video/photo download on desktop client
So I know that on mobile every time you even view a picture/video it gets downloaded for some reason, but what about on the desktop client? Does it work the same and download the file somewhere to my computer or does it just let me view it in the application without downloading it? Im in a few misc groups and dont really want to delete every single picture/video i watch in them.
Submitted January 04, 2023 at 01:24AM by Chikosenpai86
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