Download Full Channel Info By Channel — download_channel

Fetches channel entity and full channel info by username or numeric id and returns a tibble.

Usage

download_channel_info(
  client,
  channel,
  region = NULL,
  include_raw = FALSE,
  timeout_sec = getOption("telegramR.iter_timeout", 60),
  reconnect_on_timeout = TRUE,
  max_attempts = 3,
  skip_estimate = FALSE,
  hard_timeout_sec = NULL
)

Arguments

client: TelegramClient instance.
channel: character or numeric. Channel username (with or without "@") or numeric id.
region: character or NULL. Optional region tag to attach.
include_raw: logical. If TRUE, include raw Telegram objects as list columns.
timeout_sec: numeric. Timeout in seconds for network operations.
reconnect_on_timeout: logical. Reconnect on timeout if TRUE.
max_attempts: integer. Number of retry attempts for resolving and full info.
skip_estimate: logical. If TRUE, skip estimate step for last_message_id.
hard_timeout_sec: numeric or NULL. Optional hard time limit for the whole call.

Value

A tibble with flattened channel info and optional list columns for raw objects.