Telegram Bot API — The Most Developer-Friendly API I Have Ever Used

Why Telegram Bot API Is Special Most APIs make you fight with OAuth, rate limits, and pagination. Telegram Bot API gives you a simple HTTP interface with instant webhooks, no OAuth, and generous limits. Create a Bot in 60 Seconds Open Telegram, search for @botfather Send /newbot Choose a name and username Copy the API token Done. No OAuth app registration, no redirect URIs, no client secrets. Send a Message import requests TOKEN = " your_bot_token " BASE = f " https://api.telegram.org/bot { TOKEN } " def send_message ( chat_id , text ): r = requests . post ( f " { BASE } /sendMessage " , json = { " chat_id " : chat_id , " text " : text , " parse_mode " : " HTML " }) return r . json ()[ " ok " ] send_message ( " your_chat_id " , " <b>Hello</b> from Python! " ) Get Updates (Polling) def get_updates ( offset = 0 ): r = requests . get ( f " { BASE } /getUpdates " , params = { " offset " : offset , " timeout " : 30 }) return r . json ()[ " result " ] # Simple bot loop offset = 0 while True