pyTelegramBotAPI VS aiogram

Fortunately there are other, more simple libraries to interact with telegram. For example this one https://github.com/eternnoir/pyTelegramBotAPI

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 may start from this point: https://github.com/eternnoir/pyTelegramBotAPI, if you use pyTelegramBotAPI module as a wrapper for Telegram Bot API. Also, I found useful to read official API documentation https://core.telegram.org/bots/api.

There are lots of other cool things a Telegram bot can do and pyTelegramBotAPI breaks it all down in much detail.

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

A Telegram chatbot that helps you set price alerts for amazon products. The bot checks the price of your watchlisted products every hour and sends you an alert message when it reaches the target price. It is developed using the pyTelegramBotAPI and Google Sheets API and deployed on Replit. (learning to use documentation has really helped me a lot in my coding journey)

The Telegram Bot module I am using in python in called pyTelegramBotAPI and the function I am specifically having trouble with is the bot.polling() function. As soon as I try to run the bot as it's own process, I am unable to use commands on it (such as /start). Does anyone have any idea why this might be happening?

For telegram, check pyTelegramBotAPI

Python, using the pyTelegramBotAPI.

For the telegram bot I use the pyTelegramBotAPI library, written in python.

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