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• How I Self-Hosted the Telegram Bot API with Docker to Bypass 50MB Upload Limits
  1 project | dev.to | 29 Sep 2025

  FROM alpine:latest AS build WORKDIR /app RUN apk update && \ apk upgrade && \ apk add --no-cache alpine-sdk linux-headers git zlib-dev openssl-dev gperf cmake RUN git clone --recursive https://github.com/tdlib/telegram-bot-api.git RUN rm -rf /app/telegram-bot-api/build && \ mkdir /app/telegram-bot-api/build && \ cd /app/telegram-bot-api/build && \ cmake -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/app/telegram-bot-api .. && \ cmake --build /app/telegram-bot-api/build/ --target install FROM alpine:latest AS runtime WORKDIR /app ARG API_ID ARG API_HASH ENV API_ID=${API_ID} ENV API_HASH=${API_HASH} RUN echo ${API_ID} RUN echo ${API_HASH} RUN apk update && \ apk upgrade && \ apk add --no-cache alpine-sdk linux-headers git zlib-dev openssl-dev gperf cmake COPY --from=build /app/telegram-bot-api/bin/telegram-bot-api /app/telegram-bot-api EXPOSE 8081 ENTRYPOINT ["/bin/sh", "-c"] CMD ["/app/telegram-bot-api --api-id=$API_ID --api-hash=$API_HASH --local"]

• A hackable AI assistant using a single SQLite table and a handful of cron jobs
  6 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 14 Apr 2025

  *Update*: I tried writing a little Python code to read and write from a mailbox, reading worked great, but writing an email had the email disappear to some filter or spam or something somewhere. I've got to figure out where it went, but this is the warning that some people had about not trusting a messaging protocol (email in this case) when you can't control the servers. Messages can disappear.

  I read that [Mailgun](https://www.mailgun.com/) might improve this. Haven't tried it yet.

  Other alternatives for messages that I haven't tried. My requirement is to be able to send messages and send/receive on my mobile device. I do not want to write a mobile app.

  * [Telegram](https://telegram.org/) (OP's system) with [bots](https://core.telegram.org/bots)

• Hide sender name
  1 project | /r/TelegramBots | 21 Jun 2023

  Is not that hard, they have amazing documentation about it: https://core.telegram.org/bots

• Telegram OAuth Authorization for Your Site
  1 project | dev.to | 24 Mar 2023

  You can make authorization via Telegram another way. It works. But today we want to do the classic OAuth Authorization. Before you begin, you need to create a Telegram bot and obtain your bot token. You can do this in @BotFather in Telegram. For more information on initiating a bot, read the Telegram Bot API documentation: https://core.telegram.org/bots

• Is my idea possible to implement?
  1 project | /r/learnprogramming | 10 Dec 2022

  Absolutely possible. Here's the github page to the Telegram bot API. You would just need to check for incoming messages, check the body of the message for a word or phrase, and then send a message back with a photo or gif and an encouraging message.

• How I built an AI-based Telegram bot in 21 minutes with Make and OpenAI
  1 project | dev.to | 6 Dec 2022

  Creating a Telegram bot is fun: there's no website, no sign up, no forms — you just use a... bot. Yes, a bot that creates bots. It's called the BotFather 😂

• A simple forwarder from WhatsApp to Telegram written in Go
  3 projects | /r/golang | 19 Nov 2022

  Telegram has a bot API server that provides API to control the bots and get updates. Their own instance has some restrictions like you cannot download files bigger than 20MB. So, using a self hosted bot API server, you can overcome those limits.

• Serverless + JS: Um bot de web-scrapping diário
  3 projects | dev.to | 14 Nov 2022
• From BotFather to 'Hello World'
  8 projects | dev.to | 27 Oct 2022

  General Bot Platform Overview

• Não consigo abrir api.telegram.org na Claro
  1 project | /r/InternetBrasil | 17 Oct 2022
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