title: How to allow Telegram bot to read messages in a private channel that I'm in (not the bot)?
body: <p>I want to create a Telegram bot that can read all of the messages in a private channel that I'm in (the bot does NOT belong to this channel), then forward all of the messages to another group that the bot is a member</p>
  <p>This is technically possible because people did it already: <a href="https://telegrambotting.com/tg_feed/start" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://telegrambotting.com/tg_feed/start</a></p>
  <p>In my thinking, there should be 2 steps:</p>
  <ol>
  <li>Allow the bot the read the messages in a private channel that I'm in.</li>
  </ol>
  <p>Technically, I think that there should be a mechanism so that I can create a token for my account, this token will grant access to the bot to read all the messages that I can read (or messages in channels/groups that the token specifies)</p>
  <ol start="2">
  <li>Once the bot can read the messages, forward the messages to another group using the simple sendMessage method <a href="https://core.telegram.org/bots/api#sendmessage" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://core.telegram.org/bots/api#sendmessage</a></li>
  </ol>
  <p>I'm stuck at step 1.</p>
  <p>So how to allow the Telegram bot to read messages in a private channel that I'm in (not the bot)?</p>