Introducing The Telegraph API

You can now create bots and standalone tools to log in and manage Telegraph posts, and get page view statistics for any post on Telegraph.

See the @Telegraph bot for an example.

API Documentation:
http://telegra.ph/api

Moar good news, everyone!

We're extending the #BotPrize and will continue giving out grants to great bots in 2017.

Bot API v.3.0 is here!

- Brand new payment platform. Stripe supported out of the box, a dozen more payment providers on the way. See the Telegram blog for details:
https://publielectoral.lat/s/forexzig/payments

- Tools for sending and receiving the new video messages.
- The User object now has a field for the user's language.
- Bot admins can unban people in channels.
- Bots can delete messages.
- And more...

See the full changelog:
https://telega.one/s/fxnotez/bots/api-changelog#may-18-2017

We're having some DNS issues with our web properties (the issues are not on our side). Messaging is alive and well, but your bot may have trouble reaching api.telegram.org until this is resolved. Working on this, back soon!

Sorry about that.

Finally, our DNS provider fixed it (took them a while, sorry).

You may still see some residual issues due to caching, but things will get back to normal very soon.

The Bot Payment Platform now supports payments from more than 200 countries via 4 payment providers.

Three new payment providers have joined the platform since launch:

- Paymentwall, a global provider that works in 200 countries
- Yandex.Money, well known in Russia
- Paycom, popular in Uzbekistan

To connect them to your bot, pay a visit to @BotFather > Edit Bot > Payments. Read more about the platform here: https://telega.one/s/fxnotez/bots/payments

We will be adding more payment providers soon.

Bot API v.3.1 is here! Build your own robotic police force for supergoups with these new methods for admin bots:
- Ban and restrict group members
- Promote new admins
- Manage group info and invite links

See full changelog:
https://telega.one/s/fxnotez/bots/api-changelog#june-30-2017

May the Bot API v.3.2 be with you! Your bot can now handle sticker sets:
- Create sets of stickers or masks
- Rearrange and delete stickers from sets

See full changelog:
https://telega.one/s/fxnotez/bots/api-changelog#july-21-2017

A new provider has been added to the Bot Payment Platform: CLICK.

To connect it to your bot, pay a visit to @BotFather > Edit Bot > Payments and select CLICK Uzbekistan there. Read more about the platform here: https://telega.one/s/fxnotez/bots/payments

The Bot Payment Platform currently supports payments from more than 200 countries via 5 payment providers.

The Bot API v.3.3 has arrived!

- Mention users via inline mentions, without using usernames.
- Get pinned messages from group chats.
- And a little more.

See the full changelog here:
https://telega.one/s/fxnotez/bots/api-changelog#august-23-2017

African bot developers, rejoice! Rave by Flutterwave is now available as a payment option in the Bot API.

To connect it to your bot, pay a visit to @BotFather > Edit Bot > Payments and select Rave by Flutterwave there.

Read more about the platform here: https://telega.one/s/fxnotez/bots/payments

Some more good news for bot developers from Russia. Sberbank is now available as a payment option in the Bot API.

To connect it to your bot, pay a visit to @BotFather > Edit Bot > Payments and select Sberbank.

Read more about the platform here: https://telega.one/s/fxnotez/bots/payments

The Bot API v.3.4 is here!

- Added support for the new Live Locations feature (see the Telegram blog).
- Bots can now get special entities like usernames, URLs, etc. from media captions.
- Bots can now get and manage the official sticker set of groups.

See the full changelog here:
https://telega.one/s/fxnotez/bots/api-changelog#october-11-2017

The Bot API v.3.5 is alive and well.

- Added support for the new albums feature.
- Added support for pinned messages in channels.

Full changelog:
https://telega.one/s/fxnotez/bots/api-changelog#november-17-2017

Many thanks to everyone who submitted bots for our Bot Contest! We have collected a lot of requests.

New applications are no longer accepted – this stage of the contest is over. We will continue awarding creators of great bots this year. Have fun using and building bots in 2018!

Don't miss TDLib, our new library that makes creating custom Telegram clients a breeze.

Telegram Database Library takes care of all network implementation details, encryption and local data storage, so that developers can dedicate more time to design, responsive interfaces and beautiful animations.

More about TDLib on our blog:
https://publielectoral.lat/s/forexzig/tdlib

Documentation:
https://telega.one/s/fxnotez/tdlib/docs/
Code on GitHub:
https://github.com/tdlib/td

Bot API v.4.0 is here!

- Support for Telegram Passport
- Edit attached media in messages
- Add thumbnails to media and documents
- And more

Full changelog:
https://telega.one/s/fxnotez/bots/api-changelog#july-26-2018

Bot API v.4.1 is here to support Telegram Passport v.1.1

- Support for translated versions of documents
- Support for new errors returned to users

Full changelog:
https://telega.one/s/fxnotez/bots/api-changelog#august-27-2018

Telegram Passport changelog:
https://telega.one/s/fxnotez/passport#recent-changes

The Bot API is currently experiencing issues, sorry about that. Back soon!

All good now, sorry for the interruption. 👍