Telegram Bot using Python
Shashank | realslimshanky
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Who Am I ?
Shashank | realslimshanky
Python Developer for ScrapingHub
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Part of Community
My first encounter with Telegram!
What Telegram Offers
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Free and Open Source code to build your own instance of telegram
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Free API for building bots over Telegram Application
The Telegram Bot API
Authorising Your Bot
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What a bot is like on Telegram
@namebot
https://telegram.me/namebot
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Making requests
https://api.telegram.org/bot<token>/METHOD_NAME
<token> - which is retrieved from the Botfather
METHOD_NAME - anyone of the methods from API
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Some Common Methods
getMe
getUpdates
sendMessage
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How to handle your bot
Webhook
vs
Polling
python-telegram-bot
A Demo
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Where to host ?
TERMUX
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