chat_join_request_handler passes a truncated invite_link

[fttx]

1. What version of pyTelegramBotAPI are you using? 4.8.0

2. What OS are you using? macOS

3. What version of python are you using? 3.10.8

The following code

@bot.chat_join_request_handler()
def chatJoin(info):
    print("chatJoin " + info.invite_link.invite_link)

produces this result:

Basically the link is truncated with ellipsis. Is there a way to obtain the full URL?

[coder2020official]

This is behaviour of telegram:

invite_link	String	The invite link. If the link was created by another chat administrator, then the second part of the link will be replaced with “…”.

[fttx]

Thank you for the fast reply! Do you think it is safe to use the first part as a unique identifier to find the full link in a local database?

[Badiboy]

Nobody knows except Telegram developers.

[coder2020official]

I think you can use it, but you'll need to store creator of the link to be more reliable. Not sure though.

[coder2020official]

But it won't be 100% safe.