Telegram Bot API

API Documentation

• How do I get updates?
• How can I make requests in response to updates?
• How can I make sure that Webhook requests are coming from Telegram?
• How do Join and Leave notifications work?
• I'm having problems with Webhooks
• Long polling gives me the same update again and again!
• My bot is receiving some undocumented fields
• Some GIFs files are converted to MPEG-4

Bot Father

• Can I transfer the ownership of my bot to another account?
• How do I create a bot?

Files

• Can I count on file_ids to be persistent?
• How can I download files?
• How can I upload a large file?

Messages

• How to add links to my bot's messages using the formatting options?
• How can I message all of my bot's subscribers at once?
• In long messages, only part of the markdown is applied
• What messages will my bot get?

Other Questions

• I'm a developer. Where can I find some examples?
• My bot is hitting limits, how do I avoid this?
• Will you add X to the Bot API?