Find your private Telegram channel ID

Private channels have no @name, so they are identified by a numeric ID that starts with -100. In most cases you do not need to find it by hand — press "Find my channels" in the project settings and Contenter fills it in automatically. Use the steps below only if that did not find your channel.

1. 1 Make sure our bot @ContenterNetBot is an administrator of the channel and that at least one message has been posted after it was added.
2. 2 Open the channel in the Telegram web app at web.telegram.org. If the address bar shows /c/1234567890, the full ID is -100 followed by that number, for example -1001234567890.
3. 3 Alternatively, forward any message from the channel to @getidsbot or @userinfobot — the bot replies with the channel ID.
4. 4 Paste the ID (it is negative and starts with -100) into the Telegram channel field in the project settings and save.

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