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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
pip3 install telethon
Creating a client
fromtelethonimportTelegramClient, 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=12345api_hash='0123456789abcdef0123456789abcdef'client=TelegramClient('session_name', api_id, api_hash)
client.start()
Doing stuff
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'))asyncdefhandler(event):
awaitevent.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.
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