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To name just a few things, you could use bots to: • Get customized notifications and news. A bot can act as a smart newspaper, sending you relevant content as soon as it's published. • Integrate with other services. A bot can enrich Telegram chats with content from external services.,,,,,,, • Accept payments from Telegram users. A bot can offer paid services or work as a virtual storefront. • Create custom tools. A bot may provide you with alerts, weather forecasts, translations, formatting or other services.,,, • Build single- and multiplayer games.

A bot can offer rich, from simple arcades and puzzles to 3D-shooters and real-time strategy games., • Build social services. A bot could connect people looking for conversation partners based on common interests or proximity. • Do virtually anything else. Except for dishes — bots are terrible at doing the dishes. How do bots work?

At the core, Telegram Bots are special accounts that do not require an additional phone number to set up. Users can interact with bots in two ways: • Send messages and to bots by opening a chat with them or by adding them to groups.

This is useful for chat bots or news bots like the official bot. • Send requests directly from the input field by typing the bot's @username and a query.

This allows sending content from directly into any chat, group or channel. Messages, commands and requests sent by users are passed to the software running on your servers. Our intermediary server handles all encryption and communication with the Telegram API for you. You communicate with this server via a simple HTTPS-interface that offers a simplified version of the Telegram API. We call that interface our.

A detailed description of the Bot API is available on 3. How do I create a bot? There's a bot for that. Just talk to (described ) and follow a few simple steps. Once you've created a bot and received your authorization token, head down to the to see what you can teach your bot to do. You may also like to check out some code examples 4.

How are bots different from humans? • Bots have no online status and no last seen timestamps, the interface shows the label ‘bot’ instead. • Bots have limited cloud storage — older messages may be removed by the server shortly after they have been processed. • Bots can't initiate conversations with users. A user must either add them to a group or send them a message first. People can use telegram.me/ links or username search to find your bot.

• Bot usernames always end in ‘bot’ (e.g., ). • When added to a group, bots do not receive all messages by default (see ). • Bots never eat, sleep or complain (unless expressly programmed otherwise).

Bot perks Telegram bots are unique in many ways — we offer of keyboards, additional interfaces for and as well as and much, much more. Users can interact with your bot via straight from the text input field in any chat. All they need to do is start a message with your bot's username and then type a query.

Having received the query, your bot can return some results. Programma dlya formatirovaniya fleshek sandisk. As soon as the user taps one of them, it is sent to the user's currently opened chat.

This way, people can request content from your bot in any of their chats, groups or channels. Check out this to see a sample inline bot in action.

You can also try the and bots to see for yourself. You can use bots to accept payments from Telegram users around the world. From the users' perspective the system is completely seamless. Your bot sends a specially formatted invoice message. Such messages feature a photo and description of the product along with a prominent Pay button. Tapping this button opens a special payment interface right in the Telegram app.

The user enters the necessary info, choose one of their saved cards or enter a new one (Telegram also supports Apple Pay and Android Pay) — and pay for your product. Here's what the process may look like. Since the underlying technology is HTML5, the games can be anything from simple arcades and puzzles to multiplayer 3D-shooters and real-time strategy games. Our team has created a couple of simple demos for you to try out: • • • You can also check out the bot that has more than 20 games.