Troubleshooting Telegram Bot: Chat Not Found Error Solution

·Aug 19, 2025 08:24 PM·

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My agent is set up to pull drafts from a Google Sheet and post them to my Telegram group. I added a bot created by Botfather as an admin to my group per Lindy's AI chat suggestion, but I get the error message: "Request failed with status code 400 Response: { "ok": false, "error_code": 400, "description": "Bad Request: chat not found" }" and "Failed to post message to Telegram: chat not found. Please verify the Telegram configuration for the chat '@GoCART_DeSci'." https://chat.lindy.ai/chase-blakeleys-workspace/lindy/gocart-social-68a3c34b98ca801[…]&testRunId=68a4da5f0f0d6f90036a6481&e=68a4d8a1130f76516ce47d47

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Alon J.
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Hey Chase! The chat ID should be a number. How to get your chat ID (if it's a group chat): Get a Group Chat ID
Add @RawDataBot or @getidsbot to the group.
Send any message in the group.
The bot will respond with the group’s chat ID (usually a negative number like -1001234567890).
You can then remove the bot if you want.
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Chase
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I had used the numbered Chat ID before, but I didn't realize it had switched back, and the issue persisted even when I used the original Chat ID. I've been working on this agent for a week now and just realized my trial expired today, which no longer lets me use the recurring agent I set up :(
Alon J.
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No worries, I've extended your trial another week 🙂
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Alon J.
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Hey Chase! The chat ID should be a number. How to get your chat ID (if it's a group chat): Get a Group Chat ID
Add @RawDataBot or @getidsbot to the group.
Send any message in the group.
The bot will respond with the group’s chat ID (usually a negative number like -1001234567890).
You can then remove the bot if you want.
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Chase
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I had used the numbered Chat ID before, but I didn't realize it had switched back, and the issue persisted even when I used the original Chat ID. I've been working on this agent for a week now and just realized my trial expired today, which no longer lets me use the recurring agent I set up :(
Alon J.
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No worries, I've extended your trial another week 🙂
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