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title: channel
description: Represents a channel with zero or more subscribers. There two different kinds of channels: supergroups and broadcast channels
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Constructor: channel
Represents a channel with zero or more subscribers. There two different kinds of channels: supergroups and broadcast channels
Attributes:
| Name | Type | Required | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| id | int | Yes | Channel identifier |
| username | string | Yes | Channel username, empty for private channels |
| date | int | Yes | Date when current user has joined the channel or date when channel was created, if user is not a member. Unix time |
| status | ChatMemberStatus | Yes | Status of the current user in the channel |
| anyone_can_invite | Bool | Yes | True, if any member of the supergroup can invite other members. If the channel is not a supergroup, the field is meaningless |
| sign_messages | Bool | Yes | True, if messages sent to the channel should content information about the sender. If the channel is a supergroup, the field is meaningless |
| is_supergroup | Bool | Yes | True, if channel is a supergroup and is not a broadcast |
| is_verified | Bool | Yes | True, if the channel is verified |
| restriction_reason | string | Yes | If non-empty, contains the reason, why access to this channel must be restricted. Format of the string is "{type}: {description}". {type} contains type of the restriction and at least one of the suffixes "-all", "-ios", "-android", "-wp", which describes platforms on which access should be restricted. For example, "terms-ios-android". {description} contains human-readable description of the restriction, which can be showed to the user |