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{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"DiscussionForumPosting","headline":"Can't send messages to supergroups using supergroup's @username","articleBody":"If you are trying to send a message to supergroup via it's @username instead of chat_id, botogram fails with this error:\n\n```\n16:34.42 -  WARNING  - Chat 0 is not available to your bot:\n16:34.42 -  WARNING  - The chat with ID 0 doesn't exist\n16:34.42 -  WARNING  - Update #979264137 processing aborted!\n```\n\nLast time it worked in 0.2.2 release. It's been broken since commit https://github.com/pietroalbini/botogram/commit/9e142ea693d5f1806719e6023770559391d924aa\n\nNow if botogram detects string as chat_id it thinks that we are going to send our message to the telegram channel, which has slightly different Telegram API call, where we need to specify `\"id\": 0, \"type\": \"channel\"`.\n\nBecause both supergroups and channels have string ids but different API calls, I can't think of any good workaround. The ugly thing would be to make a separate method for sending to supergroups by @username.\n","author":{"url":"https://github.com/thesharp","@type":"Person","name":"thesharp"},"datePublished":"2016-08-04T16:47:39Z","url":"https://github.com/python-botogram/botogram/issues/74"}