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title: Chat
description: constructors and methods of type Chat
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## Type: Chat
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The following syntaxes can also be used:
```
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$Chat = '@username'; // Username
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$Chat = 44700; // bot API id (users)
$Chat = -492772765; // bot API id (chats)
$Chat = -10038575794; // bot API id (channels)
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$Chat = 'https://t.me/danogentili'; // t.me URLs
$Chat = 'https://t.me/joinchat/asfln1-21fa_'; // t.me invite links
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$Chat = 'user#44700'; // tg-cli style id (users)
$Chat = 'chat#492772765'; // tg-cli style id (chats)
$Chat = 'channel#38575794'; // tg-cli style id (channels)
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```
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A [Chat ](Chat.md ), a [User ](User.md ), an [InputPeer ](InputPeer.md ), an [InputUser ](InputUser.md ), an [InputChannel ](InputChannel.md ), a [Peer ](Peer.md ), or a [Chat ](Chat.md ) object can also be used.
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### Possible values (constructors):
[chatEmpty ](../constructors/chatEmpty.md )
[chat ](../constructors/chat.md )
[chatForbidden ](../constructors/chatForbidden.md )
Added docs for layer 18, 23, 25, 27, 33, 38, 40, 41, 42, 44, 45, 46, 51, 53, 55
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[geoChat ](../constructors/geoChat.md )
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### Methods that return an object of this type (methods):