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Telethon

Full-featured Telegram client library for Python 3

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Telethon

.. epigraph::

⭐️ 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.
As with any third-party library for Telegram, be careful not to
break `Telegram's ToS`_ or `Telegram can ban the account`_.

What is this?

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.

Installing

.. code-block:: sh

pip3 install telethon

Creating a client

.. code-block:: python

from telethon import TelegramClient, events, sync

# 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'

client = TelegramClient('session_name', api_id, api_hash)
client.start()

Doing stuff

.. code-block:: python

print(client.get_me().stringify())

client.send_message('username', 'Hello! Talking to you from Telethon')
client.send_file('username', '/home/myself/Pictures/holidays.jpg')

client.download_profile_photo('me')
messages = client.get_messages('username')
messages[0].download_media()

@client.on(events.NewMessage(pattern='(?i)hi|hello'))
async def handler(event):
    await event.respond('Hey!')

Next steps

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 .. _Telegram's ToS: https://core.telegram.org/api/terms .. _Telegram can ban the account: https://docs.telethon.dev/en/stable/quick-references/faq.html#my-account-was-deleted-limited-when-using-the-library .. _Read The Docs: https://docs.telethon.dev

.. |logo| image:: logo.svg :width: 24pt :height: 24pt

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