# TelegramBotAPI [![Maven Central Version](https://img.shields.io/maven-central/v/dev.inmo/tgbotapi)](https://central.sonatype.com/artifact/dev.inmo/tgbotapi) [![Supported version](https://img.shields.io/badge/Telegram%20Bot%20API-9.6-blue)](https://core.telegram.org/bots/api-changelog#april-3-2026)

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|      Useful repos      |                           [![Create bot](https://img.shields.io/static/v1?label=Github&message=Template&color=blue&logo=github)](https://github.com/InsanusMokrassar/TelegramBotAPI-bot_template/generate) [![Examples](https://img.shields.io/static/v1?label=Github&message=Examples&color=blue&logo=github)](https://github.com/InsanusMokrassar/TelegramBotAPI-examples/)                           |
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| Experimental Platforms |                                                                                                [![Linux x64](https://img.shields.io/badge/LinuxX64-FCC624?style=plastic&logo=linux&logoColor=black)](https://kotlinlang.org/docs/native-target-support.html#tier-1) [![MinGW x64](https://img.shields.io/badge/MinGWX64-black?style=plastic&logo=windows&logoColor=green)](https://kotlinlang.org/docs/native-target-support.html#tier-1)                                                                                                 |

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<p align="center">
  <a href="https://t.me/ktgbotapi">
    <img src="./resources/tg_channel_qr.jpg">
  </a>
</p>

Hello! This is a set of libraries for working with Telegram Bot API.

## Examples

There are several things you need to do to launch examples below:

* Add `mavenCentral()` to your project repositories
    * [Maven variant](https://github.com/InsanusMokrassar/TelegramBotAPI/wiki/Including-in-your-project#pomxml)
* Add dependency `implementation "dev.inmo:tgbotapi:$tgbotapi_version"` 
    * Replace `tgbotapi_version` with exact version (see last one in the table above) or put variable with this name in project
    * Alternative variant for maven [here](https://github.com/InsanusMokrassar/TelegramBotAPI/wiki/Including-in-your-project#telegrambotapi)

More including instructions [available here](https://github.com/InsanusMokrassar/TelegramBotAPI/wiki/Including-in-your-project).
Other configuration examples:

* [For multiplatform](https://github.com/InsanusMokrassar/TelegramBotAPI-examples/tree/master/ResenderBot)
* [For JVM](https://github.com/InsanusMokrassar/TelegramBotAPI-examples/blob/master/GetMeBot/build.gradle)

### Most common example

```kotlin
suspend fun main() {
  val bot = telegramBot(TOKEN)

  bot.buildBehaviourWithLongPolling {
    println(getMe())
  
    onCommand("start") {
      reply(it, "Hi:)")
    }
  }.join()
}
```

In this example you will see information about this bot at the moment of starting and answer with `Hi:)` every time it
gets message `/start`

### Handling only last messages

```kotlin
suspend fun main() {
  val bot = telegramBot(TOKEN)

  val flowsUpdatesFilter = FlowsUpdatesFilter()
  bot.buildBehaviour(flowUpdatesFilter = flowsUpdatesFilter) {
    println(getMe())
  
    onCommand("start") {
      reply(it, "Hi:)")
    }

    retrieveAccumulatedUpdates(this).join()
  }
}
```

The main difference with the previous example is that bot will get only last updates (accumulated before bot launch
and maybe some updates it got after launch)

### Build a little bit more complex behaviour

```kotlin
suspend fun main() {
  val bot = telegramBot(TOKEN)

  bot.buildBehaviourWithLongPolling {
    println(getMe())

    val nameReplyMarkup = ReplyKeyboardMarkup(
      matrix {
        row {
          +SimpleKeyboardButton("nope")
        }
      }
    )
    onCommand("start") {
      val photo = waitPhoto(
        SendTextMessage(it.chat.id, "Send me your photo please")
      ).first()

      val name = waitText(
        SendTextMessage(
          it.chat.id,
          "Send me your name or choose \"nope\"",
          replyMarkup = nameReplyMarkup
        )
      ).first().text.takeIf { it != "nope" }

      sendPhoto(
        it.chat,
        photo.mediaCollection,
        entities = buildEntities {
          if (name != null) regular(name) // may be collapsed up to name ?.let(::regular)
        }
      )
    }
  }.join()
}
```

### More examples

You may find examples in [this project](https://github.com/InsanusMokrassar/TelegramBotAPI-examples). Besides, you are
always welcome in our [docs](https://docs.inmo.dev/tgbotapi/index.html) and
[chat](https://t.me/InMoTelegramBotAPIChat).

### Bot API Server Notice

Under the hood, default bots realizations will try to use links
([PathedFile](tgbotapi.core/src/commonMain/kotlin/dev/inmo/tgbotapi/types/files/PathedFile.kt)#filePath) as files each
time you are trying to download file from telegram in any way - via saving to file, use stream or download as byte array.
To let bot correctly download files from bot api server, you must:

* Run bot api server locally
to proxy requests for files to the server where bot api server has been hosted
  * In case of local bot api server (shared one host machine) you must ensure that access to bot api server has been
  granted for your bot. For example, [aiogram/telegram-bot-api](https://hub.docker.com/r/aiogram/telegram-bot-api) image
  use `101` UID/GID in linux for user and group as owners. So, your bot must run under user included in `101` group
  (like `systemd-journal`) or be `101` UID user (like `systemd-resolve`)
* **OR** Use some reverse proxy (like nginx). It will allow you to broadcast your bots files without linux rights problems
  * Set [TelegramAPIUrlsKeeper](tgbotapi.core/src/commonMain/kotlin/dev/inmo/tgbotapi/utils/TelegramAPIUrlsKeeper.kt)#fileLinkUrlMapper
  to map urls to let bot execute requests to your nginx proxy
