To download telegram head to and download and install the appropriate version for your OS, install and create an account. The Botfather is a chat bot created by telegram through which we can get our Telegram Bot API token. Let’s get started with making our first telegram bot in Python, the first thing we’ll need to do is download Telegram, create an account and communicate with the “Botfather”. Python is excellent for creating Telegram bots and the extremely popular Python Telegram bot framework makes this much easier allowing you by default to create bots that run asynchronously so you can easily code bots that can communicate with many users at the same time. The API can even be used to manage purchases directly within Telegram. Telegram provides an excellent API for chat bots allowing the user to not only communicate using text messages, but also multimedia content with images, and video, and rich content with HTML and javascript. One of the more popular messaging platforms is Telegram with a reported 200 million monthly users.

This has created great opportunity for freelance Python developers as there is great need for the development of both simple and complex chat bots. With the popularity of instant messaging platforms and advancements in AI chatbots have experienced explosive growth with as many as 80% of businesses wanting to use chat bots by 2020.

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