TelegramTelethonScraper: Use channel_id when channel has been previously encountered

cisticola/scraper/telegram_telethon.py

@@ -115,6 +115,12 @@ 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}'
 

tests/conftest.py

@@ -99,12 +99,12 @@ RUMBLE_CHANNEL_KWARGS = {
     'notes': ''}
 
 TELEGRAM_CHANNEL_KWARGS = {
-    'name': 'South West Ohio Proud Boys (test)',
-    'platform_id': -1001276612436,
+    'name': 'USA Freedom Convoy (test)',
+    'platform_id': -1001799578085,
     'category': 'test',
     'platform': 'Telegram',
-    'url': 'https://t.me/SouthwestOhioPB',
-    'screenname': 'SouthwestOhioPB',
+    'url': 'https://t.me/usafreedomconvoy2022',
+    'screenname': 'usafreedomconvoy2022',
     'country': 'US',
     'influencer': None,
     'public': True,