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tdlib
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Client for the tdlib library.

Installation¶

First you need to install tdlib.

How to build tdlib¶

After building the library, you need to install it:

make install

Library installation¶

This library requires Python 3.9 or higher.

python3 -m pip install python-telegram

Next, you need to register a new Telegram application.

Now you can start using the library: Tutorial.

Note

More examples can be found here.

Note

The tdlib binary for Linux provided by python-shortcuts has been built on Ubuntu with libc strating from version 0.10.0. Versions before 0.10.0 were built on Alpine Linux with musl.

Docker¶

A Docker image for this library is available here

docker run -i -t --rm \
            -v /tmp/docker-python-telegram/:/tmp/ \
            akhmetov/python-telegram \
            python3 /app/examples/send_message.py $(API_ID) $(API_HASH) $(PHONE) $(CHAT_ID) $(TEXT)