python-telegram-bot VS pyTelegramBotAPI

To run the bot, you will first need to install python-telegram-bot library:

We've just gone through some basic examples but I hope you're convinced that creating your own Telegram bot is no tough work! From here on out, you may be interested to check out the documentation for python-telegram-bot to find out more of what you can do with the bot.

We are going to use this https://github.com/python-telegram-bot/python-telegram-bot package that will help us to create the telegram bot. Make sure to install it with

Nearly all py examples I see (eg examples within this popular package) use polling which I guess would be a separate server to the main Django server (as its a script thats continually running to listen). There's this older package with webhooks but it no longer works.

I've just tried to develop my first bot. There are a few libraries for this. I used this one - https://github.com/python-telegram-bot/python-telegram-bot. There is good documentation here with example code https://github.com/python-telegram-bot/python-telegram-bot/wiki/Extensions-–-Your-first-Bot. Also I used official documentation (which is more detailed): https://core.telegram.org/bots/features

First, create a bot by talking to the BotFather and follow the instructions to set it up. You can learn more about creating a bot by reading the official Telegram Bot documentation: https://core.telegram.org/bots#creating-a-new-bot Next, you will need to generate OTPs. One way to do this is by using a library like pyotp (https://pypi.org/project/pyotp/). This library allows you to generate OTPs using the HOTP (HMAC-Based One-Time Password) or TOTP (Time-Based One-Time Password) algorithms. Once you have your OTPs being generated, you can send them to your users via your bot. You can do this by using the bot's send_message method, which is part of the Python Telegram Bot library (https://python-telegram-bot.org/). Finally, you will need to handle user input and verify the OTPs that are sent to your bot. You can do this by handling the message event, which is triggered every time a user sends a message to your bot. In your event handler, you can check the received OTP against the expected OTP (which you can generate using the same library that you used to generate the initial OTP). If the OTPs match, you can consider the authentication to be successful.

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.