She inspired my daughter and I to train Judo in the first place. Well, in my case, I do Judo with my daughter, and we’re big fans of the legendary Judo player Ronda Rousey. But I’ve alwasy been of the opinion that the best bots are the ones made just for fun by hobbyists in their free time. From fully featured commercial HTML 5 games, to financial services, to integrating with FAANG and enterprise technology, there are bots for every kind of functionality imaginable.

Ready to try our hand at creating our first Telegram bot together? Let’s go for it! Creating a bot

So whether you want to show off to your friends, create useful tools to manage rooms, or just make something weird for fun, Telegram bots are what you want. What can bots do? Well, they can do almost anything you could imagine, and many things you probably wouldn’t have thought of. Luckily for people like us, Telegram designed the app to be supremely hackable by providing a free, sublimely documented API for developing bots. You probably already use Telegram, and if you don’t, you’re missing out.įor highly technical power users and tinkerers, the first question when joining Telegram is how we can automate it, push the app to its limits, and make it do things it wasn’t originally created to do. The popular chat app Telegram has 550 million monthly active users, making it the 7th most downloaded app on iOS and Android (data fromįrom hackers to journalists, every subculture these days seems to be thriving on Telegram’s end-to-end encrypted chat rooms.

Writing telegram bot