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Telethon fails to detect invalidated bot token or deleted/banned bot session after initial authorization

Open viraj-bookanna opened this issue 4 months ago • 1 comments

Code that causes the issue

After starting a bot with a valid token, Telethon correctly connects and authorizes.

However, if the bot token is later: Revoked (via BotFather), The bot is deleted, Or banned by Telegram,

Lines of code: https://github.com/LonamiWebs/Telethon/blob/e77307d0ed882b0efa880d72aaf0efe4b2fd0f64/telethon/client/updates.py#L262

https://github.com/LonamiWebs/Telethon/blob/e77307d0ed882b0efa880d72aaf0efe4b2fd0f64/telethon/client/updates.py#L323

https://github.com/LonamiWebs/Telethon/blob/e77307d0ed882b0efa880d72aaf0efe4b2fd0f64/telethon/client/updates.py#L366

Expected behavior

If the bot gets unauthorized after original auth, (was_once_logged_in). It should disconnect

Actual behavior

It just prints in the log (Cannot get difference since the account is not logged in .....) and still keep the connection

Traceback

xxxx-xx-xx xx:xx:xx,xxx- telethon.client.updates - INFO - Cannot get difference since the account is not logged in: SessionRevokedError

Telethon version

1.40.0

Python version

3.11.13

Operating system (including distribution name and version)

Windows 11, Ubuntu 22.04

Other details

No response

Checklist

  • [x] The error is in the library's code, and not in my own.
  • [x] I have searched for this issue before posting it and there isn't an open duplicate.
  • [x] I ran pip install -U https://github.com/LonamiWebs/Telethon/archive/v1.zip and triggered the bug in the latest version.

viraj-bookanna avatar Aug 13 '25 16:08 viraj-bookanna

Feel free to submit a PR since you seem to have a good grasp of the issue. I don't think I'll be able to look into this myself any time soon.

Lonami avatar Aug 13 '25 18:08 Lonami