---
id: "telegram_username"
kind: "datatype"
status: "draft"
is_pii: true
categories: ["pii", "persons", "useraccounts"]
langs: ["common"]
quality: 80
url: "http://registry.apicrafter.io/datatype/telegram_username"
---

# Telegram username (`telegram_username`)

> **Draft.** Draft records have not been reviewed yet and may be incomplete or wrong; do not treat them as authoritative for legal or compliance decisions.

Username of a Telegram user, channel or group, as in t.me/<username>, written without the @.

- Parent datatype: `username`
- Personal data (PII): yes
- Categories: Personally identifiable information (pii), Person related (persons), User accounts in products and services (useraccounts)
- Countries: global
- Languages: Common to most languages (common)
- Classification: identifier

## Detection

Regular expression (Python `re`):

```
^[A-Za-z0-9_]{5,32}$
```

## Examples

- `telegram` — Telegram
- `wikipedia_zh_n` — Chinese Wikipedia

## Mappings

- dpv: `pd:Username`
- wikidata: `P3789`

## Sources

- wikidata: <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P3789>

## Quality

Score 80/100. Missing: negative example, translation, detector coverage.

JSON: <http://registry.apicrafter.io/api/v1/datatypes/telegram_username.json> · Edit: <https://github.com/apicrafter/metacrafter-registry/edit/main/data/datatypes/any/useraccounts/telegram_username.yaml>