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Retrieving all chat members
In order to get all the members from a mega-group or channel, you need to use GetParticipantsRequest
. As we can see it needs an InputChannel
, (passing the mega-group or channel you're going to use will work), and a mandatory ChannelParticipantsFilter
. The closest thing to "no filter" is to simply use ChannelParticipantsSearch
with an empty 'q'
string.
If we want to get all the members, we need to use a moving offset and a fixed limit:
from telethon.tl.functions.channels import GetParticipantsRequest
from telethon.tl.types import ChannelParticipantsSearch
from time import sleep
offset = 0
limit = 100
all_participants = []
while True:
participants = client.invoke(GetParticipantsRequest(
channel, ChannelParticipantsSearch(''), offset, limit, hash=0
))
if not participants.users:
break
all_participants.extend(participants.users)
offset += len(participants.users)
# sleep(1) # This line seems to be optional, no guarantees!
Note that GetParticipantsRequest
returns ChannelParticipants
, which may have more information you need (like the role of the participants, total count of members, etc.)
The hash
of the request is not the channel hash. It's a special hash calculated based on the participants you already know about, so Telegram can avoid resending the whole thing. You can just leave it to 0.