I have a python script which allows me to check if a number is used on telegram or not.
I try to change the variable "phone_number" to a .txt list which basically contain phone number (There is one phone number per line)
I want the script to take a phone number from the file.txt check if it exists or not then move on to the next one and so on until all the numbers are checked.
This is what i try so far…
import random
from telethon import TelegramClient
from telethon import functions, types
import ast
api_id = XXXXX
api_hash = 'XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX'
client = TelegramClient('session', api_id, api_hash)
async def main():
phone_in = []
with open('file.txt', 'r') as f:
phone_str = f.readline()
phone_in.append(ast.literal_eval(phone_str))
result = await client(functions.contacts.ImportContactsRequest(
contacts=[types.InputPhoneContact(
client_id=random.randrange(-2**63, 2**63),
phone=phone_in,
first_name='Some Name',
last_name=''
)]
))
if len(result.users):
print(f"{phone_in} has a telegram account")
await client(functions.contacts.DeleteContactsRequest(result.users))
else:
print(f"couldn't find an account for {phone_in}")
client.start()
client.loop.run_until_complete(main())
I tried this but I had an error which is the following :
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/Users/me/phone.py", line 33, in <module>
client.loop.run_until_complete(main())
File "/usr/local/Cellar/[email protected]/3.9.1_7/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.9/lib/python3.9/asyncio/base_events.py", line 642, in run_until_complete
return future.result()
File "/Users/me/phone.py", line 17, in main
result = await client(functions.contacts.ImportContactsRequest(
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.9/site-packages/telethon/client/users.py", line 30, in __call__
return await self._call(self._sender, request, ordered=ordered)
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.9/site-packages/telethon/client/users.py", line 58, in _call
future = sender.send(request, ordered=ordered)
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.9/site-packages/telethon/network/mtprotosender.py", line 174, in send
state = RequestState(request)
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.9/site-packages/telethon/network/requeststate.py", line 17, in __init__
self.data = bytes(request)
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.9/site-packages/telethon/tl/tlobject.py", line 194, in __bytes__
return self._bytes()
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.9/site-packages/telethon/tl/functions/contacts.py", line 498, in _bytes
b'x15xc4xb5x1c',struct.pack('<i', len(self.contacts)),b''.join(x._bytes() for x in self.contacts),
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.9/site-packages/telethon/tl/functions/contacts.py", line 498, in <genexpr>
b'x15xc4xb5x1c',struct.pack('<i', len(self.contacts)),b''.join(x._bytes() for x in self.contacts),
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.9/site-packages/telethon/tl/types/__init__.py", line 9789, in _bytes
self.serialize_bytes(self.phone),
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.9/site-packages/telethon/tl/tlobject.py", line 112, in serialize_bytes
raise TypeError(
TypeError: bytes or str expected, not <class 'list'>
Here is the same code but the phone number to check is "hardcoded"
import random
from telethon import TelegramClient
from telethon import functions, types
api_id = XXXXXXX
api_hash = 'XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX'
client = TelegramClient('session', api_id, api_hash)
async def main():
phone_number = '+XXXXXXXXX'
result = await client(functions.contacts.ImportContactsRequest(
contacts=[types.InputPhoneContact(
client_id=random.randrange(-2**63, 2**63),
phone=phone_number,
first_name='Some Name',
last_name=''
)]
))
if len(result.users):
print(f"{phone_number} has a telegram account")
await client(functions.contacts.DeleteContactsRequest(result.users))
else:
print(f"couldn't find an account for {phone_number}")
client.start()
client.loop.run_until_complete(main())
Does anyone know how I can assign the file.txt to the phone_in variable?
2
Answers
If ImportContactsRequests expects one phone number at a time, then you have to call it for each phone number. That will create multiple records for a single name, but if the API doesn’t allow multiple phone numbers per person, you’ll have to decide how to handle it.
According to the doc of InputPhoneContact, the
phone
argument takesstring
type notlist
. So you could read all phones in thefile.txt
first, then loop through the list.