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Create a Telegram Bot with Botfather

BotFather is the one bot to rule them all. It will help you create new bots and change settings for existing ones. Commands known by Botfather

Creating a new Bot

  1. Message @botfather https://telegram.me/botfather with the following text: /newbot If you don't know how to message by username, click the search field on your Telegram app and type @botfather, you should be able to initiate a conversation. Be careful not to send it to the wrong contact, because there are users with a similar username.

    botfather initial conversation

  2. @botfather replies with Alright, a new bot. How are we going to call it? Please choose a name for your bot.

  3. Type whatever name you want for your bot.

  4. @botfather replies with Good. Now let's choose a username for your bot. It must end in bot. Like this, for example: TetrisBot or tetris_bot.

  5. Type whatever username you want for your bot, minimum 5 characters, and must end with bot. For example: telesample_bot

  6. @botfather replies with:

    Done! Congratulations on your new bot. You will find it at telegram.me/telesample_bot. You can now add a description, about section and profile picture for your bot, see /help for a list of commands.

    Use this token to access the HTTP API: 123456789:AAG90e14-0f8-40183D-18491dDE

    For a description of the Bot API, see this page: https://core.telegram.org/bots/api

  7. Note down the 'token' mentioned above.

  8. Type /setprivacy to @botfather.

    botfather later conversation

  9. @botfather replies with Choose a bot to change group messages settings.

  10. Type @telesample_bot (change to the username you set at step 5 above, but start it with @)

  11. @botfather replies with

    'Enable' - your bot will only receive messages that either start with the '/' symbol or mention the bot by username. 'Disable' - your bot will receive all messages that people send to groups. Current status is: ENABLED

  12. Type Disable to let your bot receive all messages sent to a group. This step is up to you actually.

  13. @botfather replies with Success! The new status is: DISABLED. /help

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