---
title: "Takeover Telegram Account"
method: POST
path: "/api/channels/telegram/auth/takeover"
tags: ["telegram-auth", "telegram-auth"]
---

# Takeover Telegram Account

`POST /api/channels/telegram/auth/takeover`

## Request

- Base URL: `https://api.dialogbrain.com` (the document declares no server; this is the origin it was published from)
- URL: `https://api.dialogbrain.com/api/channels/telegram/auth/takeover`
- Auth: none declared

Accept the "connect here instead" offer a 409 ``telegram_owned_elsewhere``
made (QR or phone path). The old login's connection is switched off and
the account is created here with the chosen sync scope. Answers the same
shape as a successful QR status poll.

## Request body

- TakeoverRequest: Accept (or cancel) a parked "connect here instead" offer.
  - `token` string, required
  - `sync_scope` string, nullable

## Response `200`

Successful Response

- unknown

## Other responses

- `422`: Validation Error

---

[API](https://skmtc.dev/dialogbrain/apis/dialogbrain-v2-api-gateway.md) · [All operations](https://skmtc.dev/dialogbrain/apis/dialogbrain-v2-api-gateway/llms.txt) · [OpenAPI document](https://skmtc.dev/dialogbrain/apis/dialogbrain-v2-api-gateway/revisions/d84e7dc9977d?raw)