# TelegramChatApiLoader

> **Class** in `langchain_community`

📖 [View in docs](https://reference.langchain.com/python/langchain-community/document_loaders/telegram/TelegramChatApiLoader)

Load `Telegram` chat json directory dump.

## Signature

```python
TelegramChatApiLoader(
    self,
    chat_entity: Optional[EntityLike] = None,
    api_id: Optional[int] = None,
    api_hash: Optional[str] = None,
    username: Optional[str] = None,
    file_path: str = 'telegram_data.json',
)
```

## Parameters

| Name | Type | Required | Description |
|------|------|----------|-------------|
| `chat_entity` | `Optional[EntityLike]` | No | The chat entity to fetch data from. (default: `None`) |
| `api_id` | `Optional[int]` | No | The API ID. (default: `None`) |
| `api_hash` | `Optional[str]` | No | The API hash. (default: `None`) |
| `username` | `Optional[str]` | No | The username. (default: `None`) |
| `file_path` | `str` | No | The file path to save the data to. Defaults to  "telegram_data.json". (default: `'telegram_data.json'`) |

## Extends

- `BaseLoader`

## Constructors

```python
__init__(
    self,
    chat_entity: Optional[EntityLike] = None,
    api_id: Optional[int] = None,
    api_hash: Optional[str] = None,
    username: Optional[str] = None,
    file_path: str = 'telegram_data.json',
)
```

| Name | Type |
|------|------|
| `chat_entity` | `Optional[EntityLike]` |
| `api_id` | `Optional[int]` |
| `api_hash` | `Optional[str]` |
| `username` | `Optional[str]` |
| `file_path` | `str` |


## Properties

- `chat_entity`
- `api_id`
- `api_hash`
- `username`
- `file_path`

## Methods

- [`fetch_data_from_telegram()`](https://reference.langchain.com/python/langchain-community/document_loaders/telegram/TelegramChatApiLoader/fetch_data_from_telegram)
- [`load()`](https://reference.langchain.com/python/langchain-community/document_loaders/telegram/TelegramChatApiLoader/load)

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[View source on GitHub](https://github.com/langchain-ai/langchain-community/blob/a6a6079511ac8a5c1293337f88096b8641562e77/libs/community/langchain_community/document_loaders/telegram.py#L83)