What is a telegram bot?

First of all, telegram bots are a special kind of accounts.

Telegram bot accounts are similar to user accounts:

  • Bots have a name, description, and avatar.
  • Bots can be added to groups and channels.
  • Bots can be administrators.
  • Every user can register bots.

But telegram bots also have a number of differences from user accounts:

  • The bot cannot be authorized in the Telegram application and managed as a regular account.
  • To manage bots, you need to write a program code that will describe how and to which messages the bot will respond.
  • The bot's username always ends with the word bot (@test_bot, @testBot).
  • A bot cannot be the first to start communicating with a stranger.
  • Bots can send messages with buttons.

Thus, telegram bots are accounts, with some limitations and additional features, designed to automatically manage them using program code.

The essence of telegram bots

At its core, telegram bots are a way of interacting with programs (written by programmers) through a regular chat.

The purpose of these programs can be completely different:

  • Providing information. Bots can find recipes for dishes, provide weather, news, currency quotes, information about a person.
  • Task management. Bots can remind you of important events, create to-do lists, and set alerts.
  • Authorization. Bots can be used for two-factor authentication, sending passwords, creating a personal account.
  • Games and entertainment. Bots can offer various games and entertainment for users. For example, quizzes, chess, crosswords can be offered.

Creating bot telegrams in @BotFather

There is an official bot in the telegram @BotFather, which is designed to create other bots. To create a bot, follow these steps:

  1. Open Telegram and find @BotFather.
  2. Click on him to open a chat with him.
  3. Enter the command /newbot.
  4. Send the name of your bot, for example My Cool Bot
  5. Send a unique username for your bot, which users can use to find it. The username should end in bot, for example, MyCoolBot123_bot. If the username is already occupied, BotFather will ask you to enter another one.
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At the end, BotFather will send you an access token. The token will look something like this: 1234567890:ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUWXYZabcdefghi.The token is required to authorize your bot (instead of login and password).

Congratulations on your first bot!

Telegram Bot Functions

As we wrote above, the bot account itself does not have any functionality, in order to add it, you need to write program code or authorize the bot in other services.

For example, if you authorize your bot in FLOWIN, then the bot will have opportunities:

  • Automatic forwarding of a message from one chat to another
  • Filtering and modifying messages
  • Adding watermarks to images
  • Adding buttons and collecting click analytics
  • Using artificial intelligence chat gpt
  • Translation of text into different languages