Node-telegram-bot-api: Unique link for telegram users

[Stanbear]

i would like to know how telegram referral links work.. how to give special link to users to track their referrals.. code examples would be appreciated.. thanks!

[alexandercerutti]

There is not referral for users.
Unique links for users are composed as follow: https://t.me/username or tg://user?id= if the user has not a username. Their purpose, anyway, is to bring to user profile.

You can build something by generating a url that bring to the bot with a start parameter, like this:

https://t.me/bot_username?start=xxxxxx

But I don't know how does this work exactly. Or better, how you get your parameter.

[Stanbear]

@alexandercerutti thanks for reply..
yes. thats what i was looking for.
https://t.me/bot_username?start=xxxxxx any idea?

[kamikazechaser]

This is known as deeplinking, there is more information here on how to use it.

[sidelux]

@Stanbear You can grab it with:

bot.onText(/\/start (.+)|\/start/i, function (message, match) {
    var invite_code;
    if (match[1] != undefined)
        invite_code = match[1];
});

[Stanbear]

thanks @sidelux, how can i grab users joined by the link. any code example? thanks..

[sidelux]

You should use message.from.username.

bot.onText(/\/start (.+)|\/start/i, function (message, match) {
    var invite_code;
    var username;
    if (match[1] != undefined){
        invite_code = match[1];
        username = message.from.username;
    }
});

[Stanbear]

thanks @sidelux. i'll figure out starting from your code!
sorry for the off-topic :{