The Telegram APIs are exposed via the telegram.Bot class. The python-telegram-bot package consists of a wrapper around Telegram APIs. Now, let’s see how can we program the bot. So our bot will be as useful as reading the horoscope… that’s cool uh? :)īut don’t worry: at the end of the article, you will be able to program any kind of bots, either completely useless like this one or useful ones! :)
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Once you start chatting with the BotFather bot, you just need to issue the /newbot command and answer the questions of BotFather will ask you: the name of your bot (it’s the display name) and the username of your bot. And guess what? You don’t need any Python to create a bot, you just need to chat with the Telegram BotFather account. Now that you have installed the package, let’s start with creating our first bot.
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$ pip install python-telegram-bot –upgrade
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So, let’s start by installing this package (I strongly recommend to use a virtual environment for this kind of things: if you don’t know how to do it, just look at this old article or stay tuned, because I’m going to write something about it soon…
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Python Telegram Bot is fully compatible with Python 3.6+ and will make developing a Telegram Bot a piece of cake. If you’re going through a boring afternoon or you’re locked down due to COVID restriction and you want to do something different, keep reading and let’s create our first Python Telegram bot! :)įor this project, all you will have to use is the python-telegram-bot package that’s basically a wrapper around telegram APIs. Creating a telegram bot with Python in minutes may seem like a clickbait title for a post, but trust me, it’s possible.