Open search and type in the name of your bot. You need to initialize a conversation with your bot. After completing the initial steps, you’ll get. Send /newbot command and follow the instructions. Open Telegram app, search for and start the chat.

I recommend to use Telegram web client for testing the basic concepts. You need to register on Telegram (obviously). How About to Create Your First Bot?įirst things first. Answering the question why it might be interesting I can say that it’s the easiest way to get the idea of APIs. Telegram did a great job and allowed users to create their own bots. And this is only a single example of bots capabilities. The above was way better, more user-friendly and less time-consuming.

Type in followed with the video you’d like to find and share.

You’re in the process of communication in your messaging app.

Of course, most of us have already used to the above algorithm and it works for us.

Go back to your messaging app, and finally share the link.

Skip the above step and do an old school copypaste.

Select share via.(and hope your app is listed in YouTube sharing list).

For example, you want to share a YouTube link in a group conversation but, you don’t have a link, yet. You can think of bot as an automated user account that can do some tricks for you. Those guys are amazing little helpers you can use in any chat. That’s the bots!įor those who still unfamiliar with this concept, and imagine it as some sort of scripted autoreply “live chat” reps, sorry but this time you’re wrong. However, there is one feature that is for sure distinguishes it among similar apps.

The app promotes itself as secured, fast, ads free, bla bla bla. On the surface Telegram is just another messaging app.

So if you already know it - simply skip this part. In upcoming paragraphs, I am going to provide some insights what bots actually are and why it may be interesting for you to create them. In this tutorial, we’re going to build a very simple bot using Python and deploy it on Heroku server.

Create own telegram bot