How I Built a Telegram Bot That Sells Digital Products (Complete Guide)

From Zero to Revenue-Generating Bot I built a Telegram bot that sells 26+ digital products with Telegram Stars payments. Here's the complete technical breakdown. Tech Stack Python 3.11 + pyTelegramBotAPI SQLite for user tracking fpdf2 for PDF generation Telegram Stars for payments (no Stripe needed!) Step 1: Bot Setup import telebot from telebot.types import LabeledPrice BOT_TOKEN = " your_token_here " bot = telebot . TeleBot ( BOT_TOKEN ) @bot.message_handler ( commands = [ ' start ' ]) def start ( message ): bot . send_message ( message . chat . id , " Welcome to SwiftUI Dev Shop! \n " " Browse products with /catalog " ) Step 2: Product Catalog PRODUCTS = { " swiftui_starter " : { " name " : " SwiftUI Starter Kit Pro " , " description " : " Complete project templates, network layer, auth flow " , " price_stars " : 65 , " file " : " products/swiftui_starter.pdf " }, # ... more products } @bot.message_handler ( commands = [ ' catalog ' ]) def catalog ( message ): for key , product in P