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title: InputChannel
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description: constructors and methods of type InputChannel
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---
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## Type: InputChannel
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[Back to types index ](index.md )
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The following syntaxes can also be used:
```
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$InputChannel = '@username'; // Username
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$InputChannel = 44700; // bot API id (users)
$InputChannel = -492772765; // bot API id (chats)
$InputChannel = -10038575794; // bot API id (channels)
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$InputChannel = 'user#44700'; // tg-cli style id (users)
$InputChannel = 'chat#492772765'; // tg-cli style id (chats)
$InputChannel = 'channel#38575794'; // tg-cli style id (channels)
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```
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A [Chat ](API_docs/types/Chat.md ), a [User ](API_docs/types/User.md ), an [InputPeer ](API_docs/types/InputPeer.md ), an [InputUser ](API_docs/types/InputUser.md ), an [InputChannel ](API_docs/types/InputChannel.md ), a [Peer ](API_docs/types/Peer.md ), or a [Chat ](API_docs/types/Chat.md ) object can also be used.
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### Possible values (constructors):
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[inputChannelEmpty ](../constructors/inputChannelEmpty.md )
[inputChannel ](../constructors/inputChannel.md )
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### Methods that return an object of this type (methods):