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Type: Chat

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You can directly provide the Update or Message object here, MadelineProto will automatically extract the destination chat id.

The following syntaxes can also be used:

$Chat = '@username'; // Username

$Chat = $update; // Update objects received in the event handler

$Chat = 'me'; // The currently logged-in user

$Chat = 44700; // bot API id (users)
$Chat = -492772765; // bot API id (chats)
$Chat = -10038575794; // bot API id (channels)

$Chat = 'https://t.me/danogentili'; // t.me URLs
$Chat = 'https://t.me/joinchat/asfln1-21fa_'; // t.me invite links

You can also provide one of the following objects, instead, MadelineProto will handle conversion automatically:

Possible values (constructors):

chatEmpty

chat

chatForbidden

channel

channelForbidden

Methods that return an object of this type (methods):