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