Native python package with a pure Python interface for the Telegram Bot API.

The code is generated directly from the API documentation, meaning up-to-date code is a matter of minutes.

• Updated official API changes of Bot API 4.0 (July 26, 2018)
• Fixed some bugs related to InputFile and InputMedia.
• And more...

Older changes...

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Via pip:

pip install pytgbot

Or manually:

git clone https://github.com/luckydonald/pytgbot.git
cd pytgbot
python setup.py install

from pytgbot import Bot

bot = Bot(API_KEY)

# sending messages:
bot.send_message(CHAT, "Example Text!")  # CHAT can be a @username or a id

# getting events:
for x in bot.get_updates():
	print(x)

All the functions can be found in the Bot class in the pytgbot/bot.py file. They are pythonic in small letters with underscores instead of camel case, for example getUpdates is bot.get_updates

Have a look into the examples folder.

First you should set logging to level DEBUG to see what's going on.

# add this to the first lines in your file
import logging
logging.basicConfig(level=logging.DEBUG)

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