Telegram.Bot is a free, open source ai interaction & interfaces project written in C# and released under MIT. It has 3,646 GitHub stars, 710 forks and 0 open issues, and was last pushed 7 days ago. On this registry it ranks #65 of 113 tracked projects in AI Interaction & Interfaces, with 5 head-to-head comparisons available.

.NET Client for Telegram Bot API

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Telegram.Bot is the most popular .NET Client for Telegram Bot API.

The Bot API is an HTTP-based interface created for developers keen on building bots for Telegram.

Check 👉 Bots: An introduction for developers 👈 to understand what a Telegram bot is and what it can do.

We, the Telegram Bots team, mainly focus on developing multiple NuGet packages for creating chatbots.

➡️ If Bot API is too limited for your use cases you can try Telegram Client API implementation written 100% in C#

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🔨 Getting Started

Please check ➡️ the Quickstart guide.

🚧 Supported Platforms

Project targets .NET Standard 2.0 and .NET 6 at minimum, with .NET 8 or more recent recommended.

📦 Extension Packages

This project is referred to as the core package and is always required for developing Telegram bots. There are extension packages that you can include in your bot projects for additional functionality:

✅ Correctness & Testing

This project is fully tested using Unit tests and Systems Integration tests before each release. In fact, our test cases are self-documenting and serve as examples for Bot API methods. Once you learn the basics of Telegram chatbots, you will be able to easily understand the code in examples and use it in your own bot projects.

🗂 References


[!NOTE]
RIP Poulad. The team would like to thank him for his contributions to the project and the community.

Frequently asked questions

Is Telegram.Bot free to use?

Telegram.Bot is open source under the MIT licence. There is no licence fee and no seat count — you can self-host it or, where the project offers one, pay a vendor for a managed version instead.

What does Telegram.Bot do?

.NET Client for Telegram Bot API

What is Telegram.Bot written in?

Telegram.Bot is primarily written in C#. Its source is publicly available at https://github.com/TelegramBots/Telegram.Bot, and it has 3,646 GitHub stars.