I'm trying to retrieve the latest message from a public chat in Telegram, specifically https://t.me/s/ukrainenowenglish.
Would this be achievable with simply using the URL? Or should would I be further ahead to utilize the Telegram API? The structure of Telegram in Web Browser is throwing me off, so any sort of ideas on where I should be looking would be very much appreciated.
You can just do something like this
import requests
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
URL = "https://t.me/s/ukrainenowenglish"
r = requests.get(URL)
soup = BeautifulSoup(r.content, 'html5lib')
messages = soup.find_all("div", class_="tgme_widget_message_text")
lastmessage = messages[len(messages)-1].text
print(lastmessage)
You may need to install those three libraries
pip install requests
pip install html5lib
pip install bs4