From 16aad4ef2cd7b8d7bd78ab7d7d36ecb13c54fc9a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Logan Williams <logan.williams@alum.mit.edu>
Date: Thu, 31 Mar 2022 16:50:20 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] TelegramTelethonScraper: Using the username is fine.

---
 cisticola/scraper/telegram_telethon.py | 6 ------
 1 file changed, 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/cisticola/scraper/telegram_telethon.py b/cisticola/scraper/telegram_telethon.py
index 8f7fefa..fb9a58f 100644
--- a/cisticola/scraper/telegram_telethon.py
+++ b/cisticola/scraper/telegram_telethon.py
@@ -115,12 +115,6 @@ class TelegramTelethonScraper(Scraper):
         phone = os.environ['TELEGRAM_PHONE']
 
         with TelegramClient(phone, api_id, api_hash) as client:
-            try:
-                client.get_entity(channel.platform_id)
-                username = channel.platform_id
-            except:
-                logger.info(f"Channel {username} not encountered before")
-
             for post in client.iter_messages(username):
                 post_url = f'{channel.url}/{post.id}'