pyTelegramBotAPI VS firefly-cli

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.

Unfortunately the apps (that I know of) do not allow for offline storage and later sync with the server. If I get the time I may add a similar feature to firefly-cli, which is a simple (very preliminar) CLI tool to enter the expenses.