Telegram ​

Telegram is the best messenger that exists right now. I use it for personal messaging, following many group chats & channels. I run a channel of my own too where I post a stream of things I liked & thought about.

I also created macOS/iOS Automation & Karabiner groups.

I mapped my most visited chats with KM macros that call URL schemes like so:

This lets me jump between many chats instantly. For other chats I use the channel switcher. I also use smart folders:

I can then on macOS use ⌘ + 1/2/3 to switch between the folders. And on iOS, swipe left and right or click. The folders are: Personal Messages (1 to 1 chats), Groups, Channels, Bots.

Telebot, grammY, Telegraf, typegram are great bot libraries.

Remove Join Group Messages is nice bot to add to groups to remove user joined messages.

Also use Telegram's Saved Messages for quick todos/notes. Tweets I want to act on soon, random thoughts etc. Until I build an app for it.

Bot libraries ​

• grammY - Telegram Bot Framework in TS. (Code) (Examples) (Parse Mode plugin for grammY) (Basic Scene) (Awesome) (Web Code)
• Create grammY apps - Create grammY apps with one command.
• grammY runner - ScalTelegram bot starter based on grammYe grammY bots.
• Telegram bot starter based on grammY
• grammY Tests - Write tests for your Telegram Bots made using grammY.
• grammY Fluent - Fluent localization system integration for grammY Telegram bot framework.
• grammY validator - Validation logic for Telegram Web Bots and Login Widgets.
• grammY Conversations - Conversational interfaces for grammY.
• grammY port of NestJS Telegraf
• grammY Web App Utils - Building blocks for Telegram Web Apps.
• Components for grammY
• Backend for grammY Free Sessions
• grammY Free Sessions
• grammY Hydrate - Hydration plugin for API calls and context objects.
• grammY AutoQuote - Forces all sent messages to quote the last received one.
• grammY History - Telegram does not store the chat history for your bot. This plugin does.
• Markup plugin for grammY - Provides telegraf-like keyboard and inline keyboard builders.
• Go Telegram
• botgram - Microframework to build Telegram bots. (Web)
• Node.js Telegram Bot API
• Go bindings to Telegram API (Docs)
• Telegraf - Modern Telegram Bot Framework for Node. (Docs) (NestJS module) (Telegraf Throttler)
• Integram - Integrate Telegram into your workflow.
• Telebot - Telegram bot framework in Go. (Template)
• tbcomctl - Common controls to use with Telebot library.
• Telegrammer - Written with Swift 5.0/NIO, supports Linux, macOS.
• Telegraphist - Telegram Bot API on Go.
• Pyrogram - Telegram MTProto API Client Library and Framework for Python. (Docs)
• gramme.rs - Set of Rust libraries to interact with Telegram's API.
• grammersthon - Turn Grammers into a user friendly framework.
• teloxide - Elegant Telegram bots framework for Rust.
• Rust Telegram Bot Library
• telegram-bot-simple - Easy to use library for building Telegram bots in Haskell.
• Telegram Bot API in C++ - Telegram Bot API provides an HTTP API for creating Telegram Bots.
• Telegram Bot API Docker
• Telethon - Pure Python 3 MTProto API Telegram client library, for bots too.
• banana - C++ Telegram Bot API library.
• TelegraML - OCaml implementation of the Telegram Bot API.
• pyTelegramBotAPI - Simple, but extensible Python implementation for the Telegram Bot API.
• Frankenstein - Telegram bot API client for Rust.
• Telegram Test API - Implementation of telegram API which can be used for testing telegram bots.
• tgfancy - Fancy, Higher-Level Wrapper for Telegram Bot API.
• botapi - Telegram Bot API server in Go.
• telegram-bot-swift - Telegram Bot SDK for Swift.
• Telegrask - Flask-inspired Telegram bot micro framework for Python.
• TGBF - Telegram Bot Framework.
• Kotlin Telegram Bot Library (Template)
• Slimbot - Telegram Bot API for Node.js.
• AIOGram - Simple and fully asynchronous framework for Telegram Bot API written in Python 3.7 with asyncio and aiohttp.
• Echotron - Concurrent library for telegram bots written in pure Go.
• teloxide-core - Tools for making requests to the Telegram Bot API with ease.
• shell2telegram - Create Telegram bot from command-line.
• tgbot-cpp - C++ library for Telegram bot API.
• telezig - Telegram bot library written in Zig.
• Telegram Bot API Wrapper for Scala
• Telebot - Write Telegram bots in Rust with Tokio and Futures.
• GoBotAPI - AutoGenerated Telegram BotAPI Framework for Go.
• Python-Telegram-Bot - Pure Python, asynchronous interface for the Telegram Bot API.
• Telbot - Rust telegram bot library for many runtimes.
• Telegrambot - Telegram Bot API 6.1 in Go.
• OrigamiBot - Pythonic Telegram bot API library.
• Telegram Vapor Bot - Wrapper for the Telegram Bot API written in Swift with Vapor.
• Telexide - Easy-to-use async telegram bot library for Rust.
• Telegram.jl - Native Julia Telegram bot API wrapper.
• telegraf/entity - Convert Telegram entities to HTML or Markdown.
• Telegramium - Pure functional Telegram Bot API for Scala.

Bots ​

• Remove Join Group Messages - Automatically delete join/left message in your groups.
• Telegram ChatGPT Concierge Bot (+ Voice)
• Rose - Powerful telegram bot to help you manage your groups.
• Remix - Operational and exprimental Telegram music bot.
• Telepathy - OSINT toolkit for investigating Telegram chats. (Tweet)
• Telegram Support Bot - Telegram ticketing/supporting system.
• LyAdminBot - Бот для администрирования групп. (Code)
• Telegram File Stream Bot - Will give you stream links for Telegram files without the need of waiting till the download completes.
• shell-bot - Telegram bot that executes commands and sends the live output.
• vzmuinebot - Telegram bot for food menu navigate.
• TgDev - Telegram bots development.
• Funda new house alerts on Telegram
• tghbot - Simple Github events notification bot written using gotd.
• Telegram Captcha Bot - Validates new users that enter supergroup. Validation works like a simple captcha. Bot written in Go.
• carbon.now.sh telegram chatbot - Telegram Chatbot that generates carbon.now.sh images from source code.
• webhook2telegram - Telegram bot which translates push messages sent as simple HTTP calls into Telegram messages you can subscribe to.
• Voicy - Automatically converts all the audio messages to text when added to a group chat. (Code)
• Stonky - Stock market Telegram bot.
• telewater - Telegram bot that applies watermark on images, gifs, and videos.
• Release Tracker - Telegram Bot written in Rust to Track new Github releases.
• TgBot-RS - Modular Telegram Group Manager Bot written in Rust.
• TweetBot - Telegram Bot to Stream the tweets from any twitter accounts to Telegram Channel.
• Telegram to Notion - Instantly send content from Telegram to Notion.
• github2telegram - Bot that can send notification of new releases to Telegram.
• Voice to text bot - Unpack voicemails into a text.
• LoggingTelegram - Send SwiftLog messages to any Telegram chat.
• Olgram Bot - Конструктор ботов обратной связи. Open source альтернатива Livegram бота. Telegram feedback bot constructor. (Code)
• piston_bot - Telegram bot that will run code for you.
• TelegramBotsList - List of Telegram bots with open source code in alphabetical order.
• MySubredditsBot - Telegram bot to track posts in subreddits.
• telegram-bot-dumper - Easy dumping of all Telegram bot stuff.
• Cloud Convert Bot - Telegram bot to do file conversions. (Code)
• Video Downloader - Telegram bot to download videos from URLs.
• ArbeitBot - Free open-source Telegram freelance market.
• Shieldy - Best solution in Telegram to fight annoying spammers. (Code)
• Telegram Advent Calendar
• WilliamButcherBot - Telegram Group Manager Bot Written In Python Using Pyrogram.
• Hitokoto - Telegram bot hosted in cloudflare workers.
• Ultroid - Stable pluggable Telegram userbot + Voice & Video Call music bot, based on Telethon.
• LazyBot - Telegram Userbot based on GramJS.
• TGVCBot - Telegram VC Music Bot.
• snazzybot - Get results across web right on Telegram.
• text-to-notion-bot - Simple self-hosted single-user telegram bot for sending text into Notion, using the official API.
• Lightning-sentinel - Telegram bot written in rust that will monitor a lighting node over tor.
• BotFather - Use it to create new bot accounts and manage your existing bots.
• crate_upd_bot - Telegram bot that notifies about crate updates.
• Xor - User bot. Redefined.
• TgTranslator - Telegram bot that removes language barrier between people in groups. (Code)
• Link Preview Bot - Generates link previews for all links in messages. (Code)
• Telegram Bot Microservice - Basis for extendable, high-performance Telegram Bot microservice.
• TRTMP - Bot for streaming in Telegram live streams.
• Alerter - Telegram and Matrix bot for alerts from Alertmanager.
• Syntax Highlighter Bot
• grammYdocsbot - Telegram bot to let you search grammY docs inline.
• Telegram Web Bots Demo
• Syntax Highlighter WebApp - Syntax highlighter bot based on Telegram's WebApp update.
• PyroFilesStoreBot - Telegram Parmanent Files Store Bot.
• Captcha - Telegram Bot written in Go.
• Scan Tool Bot - Scan a QR code with a camera.
• Media Search bot - Inline bot for channels and groups.
• Aria/qBittorrent Telegram
• supapro-telegram - Small bot which helps maintain C++ telegram channels.
• НЯН - Автоматический агрегатор новостей в Телеграме / Automatic news aggregator of Russian news in Telegram.
• Transcriber_Bot - Transcribes voice messages and pictures into text.
• Teletok - Telegram bot for TikTok download.
• CITelegramBot - Telegram Bot For CI Notifications written In Scala 3.
• Price Tracker - Telegram bot including API, which can track product prices & ping you on any changes.
• uniborg - Pluggable asyncio Telegram userbot based on Telethon.
• Notion Help Bot - Notion-backend Telegram bot.
• Reputation telegram bot
• Telegram Channel Comments Helper
• veebot-telegram
• Summarize bot - Summarize what happened last 1,000 messages in Telegram group.
• Crates Bot - Telegram bot to search for Crates.
• MagicEraser - Telegram Bot for removing objects from pictures.
• TgRedditBot - Control Reddit from Telegram.
• FileSharingBot - Telegram Bot which can store multiple private files and other users can access it from sharable link.
• FoxBot - Telegram bot for easily collecting furry images from multiple sites.
• JsonBot - Bot to Display telegram-bot-api JSON of all sent messages.
• Django Telegram Bot - Django + python-telegram-bot + Celery + Redis + Postgres + Dokku + GitHub Actions template.
• Stable Diffusion Telegram Bot
• tgbot-mastodon-sync - Telegram bot synchronizes Telegram messages to Mastodon.
• Funny quiz game for telegram, play with friends on your group
• GamerFeed - Bot and Scrapper system.
• Telegram Event Plan & RSVP Bot - Bot to help plan, organize, disseminate, and coordinate events. Makes life easy for event organizers.

Notes ​

• Telegram messages are server side encrypted and those encryption keys are never stored in the same data center but spread across several.
• Don't use Telegram for private incriminating conversations. Telegram leak messages to governments like Russia/Iran/Belarus.
• Когда я спросила об этом адвоката (адвокат по уголовкам, не политический), она сказала, что "то, что телеграм течет - давно уже не секрет, но почему-то никто это не обсуждает".

Links ​

• Awesome Telegram Groups
• Collection of Telegram Bots for Geeks
• Telegram Master Bot List
• Teleprompter - Ask for user prompt using Telegram.
• Telegram iOS
• mtg - Highly opinionated MTPROTO proxy for Telegram.
• Minute Hack: Get SSH login notification on Telegram
• Telegram Desktop - Complete source code and the build instructions for the alpha version of the official desktop client for the Telegram messenger.
• Informer - Telegram Mass Surveillance Bot in Python. (HN)
• Awesome Telegram - Collection great groups, channels, bots and libraries for Telegram.
• List of telegram groups, channels & bots
• Telegram Bot Code Samples
• Awesome Telegram
• The Evolution of Telegram
• DiscussBot - Add comments to posts in your channel. Or add comments to pages on your website.
• Take Notes and Save Links Using Telegram (2020)
• Telegram Open Code
• Create a Telegram Bot in Python in under 10 minutes (2020)
• Evolution of Telegram
• Building a Telegram bot with Apache Kafka and ksqlDB
• MTProto - Full-native go implementation of Telegram API.
• Convert telegram channel to an email newsletter
• Telegram for GitHub Actions - GitHub Action that sends a Telegram message.
• TDLib (Telegram Database library) - Cross-platform library for building Telegram clients. It can be easily used from almost any programming language. (Web)
• python-telegram - Python API for the tdlib library. It helps you build your own Telegram clients.
• Such Chat - Customer support via Telegram made easy.
• Building a Telegram Bot with Azure Functions and Node.js (2020)
• TL (Type Language) - Parser for telegram's mtproto.
• td - MTProto encoder/decoder.
• td - Telegram client in go.
• TGStore - Encrypted object storage system with unlimited space backed by Telegram.
• Intergram - Free live chat widget linked to your Telegram messenger. (Web)
• The Most Backdoor-Looking Bug I’ve Ever Seen (2021) - Story of a bug that was discovered and fixed in Telegram’s self-rolled cryptographic protocol. (Lobsters) (HN)
• Automated Symbolic Verification of Telegram's MTProto 2.0 (2020) (HN) (Code)
• Why Isn’t Telegram End-to-End Encrypted by Default (2017) (HN)
• Write yourself a Telegram bookstore bot in Haskell (2017)
• Telegram Bugs and Suggestions
• A Telegram bot in Elixir featuring LiveView (2021)
• tg-archive - Tool for exporting Telegram group chats into static websites, preserving chat history like mailing list archives.
• LoggerTelegramBackend - Logger backend for Telegram.
• Telegram Web Z - Secret project for winning Telegram Lightweight Client Contest.
• Telegram Web K
• MTProto transports
• MTProxybot - Set up and manage Telegram MTProxy servers.
• Telegram messenger CLI
• go-telegram-widget - Data structure and associated utility functions for the Telegram login widget.
• tgcf - Tool to automate custom telegram message forwarding.
• Botletter - Turn your telegram community links into a newsletter.
• Security Analysis of Telegram (Symmetric Part)
• MTProto Analysis: Accessible Overview (2021)
• Telegram Tips
• Telegram Bot List - Search Telegram Bots.
• Telegram Bots Rating (top 500)
• Why Telegram had to follow Apple and Google when they suspended a voting app (2021) (HN) (Tweet)
• Пресс-конференция Павла Дурова (2021)
• Telegram Channels - 18000+ Telegram Channels, Groups, Bots and Stickers List.
• Telegram Developer Challenges
• TGNews - Telegram Data Clustering contest solution by Mindful Squirrel.
• Telegram Ad Platform (HN)
• Pushshift Telegram Ingest API - Ingests data from numerous Telegram channels / groups and stores that data in Postgres and Elasticsearch.
• Telegram bot that has the ability to /eval code
• TypeScript types for the entire Telegram Bot API
• Is Bot Down - Check if your favorite bot is down or not. (Code)
• GramJS - NodeJS/Browser MTProto API Telegram client library.
• SSG - Generate GramJS/Telethon string sessions in your browser. (Code)
• Telegram Protected Content, Delete by Date, Device Management and more (2021) (HN)
• TeleIRC - Go implementation of a Telegram <=> IRC bridge for use with any IRC channel and Telegram group.
• Botmate - Self-hosted open source Telegram bot platform. (Code) (Web Code)
• How Telegram Messenger circumvents Google Translate's API (2021) (HN)
• mtproto/core - Telegram API JS (MTProto) client library for Node.js and browser.
• Telegram Web App - Based on the ReactJS JavaScript framework and TDLib (Telegram Database library) compiled to WebAssembly.
• TeleDrive - Open source project of Google Drive/OneDrive/iCloud/Dropbox alternative using Telegram API for the free unlimited cloud storage. (Code)
• GoTGProto - Helper package for Go Telegram Client, i.e. gotd/td.
• telegram-send - Send messages and files over Telegram from the command-line.
• DIBgram - Unofficial Telegram web app which looks like Telegram Desktop.
• Telegram WebRTC (VoIP) - Voice chats, private incoming and outgoing calls in Telegram for Developers.
• Telegram Became the Anti-Facebook (2022) (HN)
• Telegram proxies list
• Guide to All Things Webhook
• Telegram Upload - Upload and download files from Telegram up to 2GiB using your account.
• Teamgram - Open source mtproto server written in Go with compatible telegram client.
• NebulaChat - Self hosted mtproto messenger.
• Telegram and the future of Russian Internet freedom (2022)
• Async MTProto Proxy - Fast and simple to setup MTProto proxy written in Python.
• MTCute - Library for MTProto in TypeScript.
• Telegram Payment Bots in 2022
• InviteMember Blog - Telegram Subscription Business Resource.
• Telegram Limits - Describes Telegram limitations. (Code)
• Telegram Local - Example of Telegram local API and aiogram 3.x.
• Telegram bots - From idea to production by Ferran Jovell (2022) (Code)
• React Telegram Login - React Telegram Login Widget Component.
• Безопасен ли Телеграм? (2022)
• TGDB - Make Telegram channels your next project's Database.
• Four Attacks and a Proof for Telegram (2018)
• Telegram Trilateration - Proof of concept for abusing Telegram's "People Near Me" feature and tracking people's location.
• TDLibKit - Native Swift wrapper for Telegram's TDLib. Available on iOS, macOS, watchOS and tvOS.
• Decrypted versions of Telegram for iOS
• Telegram Crawler - Automatically detect changes made to the official Telegram sites. (Bot)
• PyTgCalls - Async client API for the Telegram Group Calls.
• tg-file-id - Simple nodejs module to decode file_id and file_uniq_id of telegram bots.
• HN: 700M users and Premium (2022)
• Aqueduct - macOS app to view Telegram channels.
• Grm - MTProto API Client for Deno.
• Arigram - Fork of tg, hackable telegram TUI client.
• GoGram - Full-native implementation of MTProto protocol on Go.
• tgcli - Telegram Terminal Application.
• getdoc - Telegram documentation parser.
• telegram-banhammer - Program which uses MTProto Telegram API to ban spammers from a group.
• TL - Serialization format, created by Telegram and TON devs.
• Telestatic - Telegram MTProto framework for NodeJS.
• Telegram: No-SIM Signup, Auto-Delete All Chats, Topics 2.0 and More (2022) (HN) (Reddit)
• TL-Schema Explorer - Search for Telegram API methods, constructors, and types. (Code)
• Telegram Exporter - Python script for exporting data from your telegram account.
• TgStorage - Advanced "Saved Messages" of the Telegram.
• BotMate - Build & Host Telegram Bots. (GitHub)
• Telegram Bot on Cloudflare Workers
• insights-bot - Bot works with OpenAI GPT models to provide insights for your Telegram info flows.
• Telegram Web Apps for Bots (HN)
• Telegram Antispam API - Fast spam classification API built using Rocket Web Framework.
• Great Telegram accounts for news updates
• How to send messages to a private Telegram channel from a bot (2022)
• About Me Info Bot - Share your social media and links on Telegram.
• tgfwd - Telegram message forwarder.
• piltover - Experimental Telegram Server implementation in Python.
• tgmount-ng - Creates virtual file system with files posted on telegram.
• PolyBot - Async bot server with straightforward commands definition, with intelligent chat mode using LLMs.