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⭐️ Thanks everyone who has starred the project, it means a lot!
|logo| Telethon is an asyncio_ Python 3 MTProto_ library to interact with Telegram_'s API as a user or through a bot account (bot API alternative).
.. important::
If you have code using Telethon before its 1.0 version, you must
read `Compatibility and Convenience`_ to learn how to migrate.
Telegram is a popular messaging application. This library is meant to make it easy for you to write Python programs that can interact with Telegram. Think of it as a wrapper that has already done the heavy job for you, so you can focus on developing an application.
.. code-block:: sh
pip3 install telethon
.. code-block:: python
import asyncio
from telethon import TelegramClient, events
# These example values won't work. You must get your own api_id and
# api_hash from https://my.telegram.org, under API Development.
api_id = 12345
api_hash = '0123456789abcdef0123456789abcdef'
async def main():
client = TelegramClient('session_name', api_id, api_hash)
await client.start()
asyncio.run(main())
.. code-block:: python
print((await client.get_me()).stringify())
await client.send_message('username', 'Hello! Talking to you from Telethon')
await client.send_file('username', '/home/myself/Pictures/holidays.jpg')
await client.download_profile_photo('me')
messages = await client.get_messages('username')
await messages[0].download_media()
@client.on(events.NewMessage(pattern='(?i)hi|hello'))
async def handler(event):
await event.respond('Hey!')
Do you like how Telethon looks? Check out Read The Docs
_ for a more
in-depth explanation, with examples, troubleshooting issues, and more
useful information.
.. _asyncio: https://docs.python.org/3/library/asyncio.html .. _MTProto: https://core.telegram.org/mtproto .. _Telegram: https://telegram.org .. _Compatibility and Convenience: https://docs.telethon.dev/en/stable/misc/compatibility-and-convenience.html .. _Read The Docs: https://docs.telethon.dev
.. |logo| image:: logo.svg :width: 24pt :height: 24pt
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Full-featured Telegram client library for Python 3
We found that cloudgram-telethon demonstrated a healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released less than a year ago. It has 1 open source maintainer collaborating on the project.
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