aiogram VS telebot

The first idea is doable if you have programming skills. Maybe with something like this: https://github.com/aiogram/aiogram

It could be made to join groups, I'll really consider that if there is a demand. I'm using Aiogram bot and it support this.

Here, the decorators have already used filters built into aiogram. The entire list of such filters can be found here.

Of course, it's good to write API requests yourself. It reduces the dependency on third-party libraries and allows you to control the behavior of the code more. But when there are more such methods than twenty, it already increases the size of the code. It becomes difficult to manage all the logic. This is where third-party libraries(frameworks) come to the rescue. After choosing a language, you can consider the options of different libraries from the list here, on the official Telegram page. For JavaScript I recommend using node-telegram-bot-api and telegraf. For Python you can take pyTelegramBotAPI and aiogram(highly recommended).

you can start by looking at python-telegram-bot, pyTelegramBotAPI, aiogram. The rest is looking throught the documentation.

aiogram

I'd suggest not using pyTelegramBotAPI because of its unstable polling. If you're ok with asyncio, try https://github.com/aiogram/aiogram

I'm willing to release the code on GitHub along with an article on my blog if you are interested. The bot is coded in Python using mainly the Aiogram package https://github.com/aiogram/aiogram.

I have never used python-telegram-bot (which looks like to be your case), but with aiogram, it's pretty easy to send mediafiles: https://github.com/aiogram/aiogram/blob/dev-2.x/examples/media_group.py (you can replace "attach_photo" with "attach video"). Note that the latest aiogram version 2.12 seems to be broken, so downgrade to 2.11.2.

look into async solutions. https://realpython.com/async-io-python/ https://github.com/aiogram/aiogram -> aysnc telegram https://github.com/pgjones/quart -> flask replacement

But then it's hard to imagine much better than the existing Telebot library, which is a very elegant and idiomatic Go.

https://github.com/tucnak/telebot

I use https://github.com/tucnak/telebot, which has been a joy to work with. It'd take a bit of time to decouple my actual business logic from the bot portions of my code so I can't share that, but it isn't far off from the examples within the README on that repo.

I understand that it is possible to initialise a WebApp opened from Telegram using either a menu or inline button. Ideally I want to provide the Telegram client's contact list to the WebApp. If anyone can provide an example of how to do that I would be very grateful. I'm using the https://github.com/tucnak/telebot API for Go but if there is a better API in another language that anyone recommends I'd be happy to use that.

Created bot credentials using BotFather For integration with Telegram, I found a bot framework for Go - Telebot The setup was pretty easy:

We are ready to start the implementation. We'll be using the Telebot Go library. Telebot is a framework that is going help us a lot interacting with the Telegram Bot API (setting up the bot, handling requests, sending messages, etc).