Is it possible to automate the setcommands command?
Instead of going to Botfather. Is there any way to doing from my code using Telegram API or anything else?
Telegram Bot API currently doesn't support interacting with other bots. If you really need adding commands to your bot programmatically, go through Telegram API (Don't confuse it with Bot API. This API is used for creating telegram clients, not bots) and contact #BotFather.
However, doing that doesn't seem reasonable. Instead, there might be a simpler approach so you don't need to add commands to your bot programmatically.
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I have created some new telegram bots to test their functionality. I haven't used them before, but I cannot seem to get them to respond to any commands?
Has anyone come across this issue before?
You have created a telegram bot on telegram. However..
Did you set any webhooks for the bot?
You should set a webhook/polling and write a backend to make it response to your queries.
For reference you can start from here
https://core.telegram.org/bots/api
set the webhook for your bot.
Ex:
http://api.telegram.org/bot<TOKEN>/setWebhook?url=<ENDPOINT>
In the Telegram app, you can send photos that self-destruct and can't be screenshotted by clicking on the clock icon before sending them. Is there any way to reproduce this behavior using the Telegram Bot API?
I'm using python-telegram-bot and couldn't find anything in its docs, but i'm not even sure if the API allows it. I could delete the messages after some time using bot.delete_message, however, the important part here is that the images shouldn't be screenshottable.
I'm using python-telegram-bot and couldn't find anything in docs, but i'm not even sure if the API allows it.
Telegram Bot API does not support such method yet.
I could delete the messages after some time using bot.delete_message, however, the important part here is that the images shouldn't be screenshottable.
Yes, bot can delete messages "manually" but there's no way to control the ability of making screenshots.
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Is there any way to detect if a user stores or forwards a message (e.g. a video) in a channel?
Long:
I am completely new to programming for Telegram (although am a programmer). So have no idea about the tools that are provided by Telegram's API. I actually found nothing related to this issue browsing the web and Telegram documentations. So I thought someone might have an experience with it.
The scenario is that a client of mine is running a virtual teaching system on Telegram and her problem is that the added members to the channel are able to forward the teaching videos to other persons out of the channel, who have not actually paid the fee. Now is there any work around on earth for this problem?
You can't track user in Telegram, remember this IM is very care about privacy.
Try making it a Bot rather than a channel, you can create bots with a bot in telegram called botfather search it and consider making a bot instead of a channel
there isn't any way to track users to see if they forward or save the videos.
you can only do one of these:
create a bot using telegram api (not telegram bot api) and then send videos as a self destructing message to each user.
or put the videos on a website which only registered users can login and watch.
Recently, There are new robots that claim to be able to tell who has seen your profile photo but most of them are fake.
I want to know is it actually possible to write that bot? Directly by using bot api or indirectly like creating a channel for bot ...
This is not possible in Telegram, those bots just provide fake data.
You can't even know who views your channel post via either Client API, Bot API, or unofficial APIs.
I think all of these robots are fake and for ads. actually it's not useful that a robot tell who seen your profile photo. I think it is impossible.
How can I add another existing bot to my BothFather in telegram?
I have my own bot and I can see it in BotFather and now I am asked to manage another bot (which I have its security key).
But I could not see this bot in my BotFather(obviously, because I did not create it) and I could not find any way to add this second bot into my BotFather in order to change its info or default commands list.
If I understand correctly, you have a bot that you created yourself with #BotFather and you can manage its commands, info etc. by talking to BotFather.
Then you have been asked to manage another bot created by someone else and you have been given its token.
Let me tell you that you cannot change the info of the Bot created by someone else. i.e. you don't have the ownership of the Bot.
Bot Ownership transfer is a feature that Telegram Support said will consider in future.
As far as making the bot work, by using the API Token you can go through their Bot API Documentation.
[EDIT]
With Bot API 5.0, it's now possible to Transfer the bot ownership.