Telegram bot Response: Date-Format - telegram-bot

Question

I am trying to make my own bot right now. Now I am facing a small problem... When receiving messages via API the JSON looks like this:
{
"update_id": 297528782,
"message": {
"message_id": 2,
"from": {
"id": 148361373,
"is_bot": false,
"first_name": "yz",
"username": "yz"
},
"chat": {
"id": -403635451,
"title": "bottest",
"type": "group",
"all_members_are_administrators": false
},
"date": 1583942557,
"left_chat_participant": {
"id": 1138406331,
"is_bot": true,
"first_name": "xxxxxxxxxbot",
"username": "xxxxxxxxxbot"
},
"left_chat_member": {
"id": 1138406331,
"is_bot": true,
"first_name": "xxxxxxxxxbot",
"username": "xxxxxxxxxbot"
}
}
}
How can I transform something like ("date":1583942557) to something like dd-MM-YYYThh:mm?
Thanks in advance

Answer 1

Telegram creates timestamp of the message as a UNIX-time
(seconds since Jan 01 1970)
To convert it to 'YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM:SS' string you can use the following:
import datetime, time
data = json.load('json_file_with_telegram_message.json')
messageTime = data['message']['date'] # UNIX time
messageTime = datetime.datetime.utcfromtimestamp(messageTime) # datetime format
messageTime = messageTime.strftime('%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S') # formatted datetime
TimeStamp = str(messageTime)
Enjoy!