guide_telegram.md

Getting telegram bot token

token needed for uploading and downloading Telegram stickers (Note: If you don't want to do this, you can still upload stickers manually by using this: https://t.me/stickers)

1. Contact botfather on telegram: https://t.me/botfather
2. Follow instructions here to create a bot and get token: https://core.telegram.org/bots/features#creating-a-new-bot
3. The token looks like this: 110201543:AAHdqTcvCH1vGWJxfSeofSAs0K5PALDsaw
4. You need to send /start to your newly created bot

Getting telegram user_id

user_id needed for uploading Telegram stickers. Note that the user_id should be from a real account, not from the bot account. (Note: If you don't want to do this, you can still upload stickers manually by using this: https://t.me/stickers)

Follow instruction from this post: https://stackoverflow.com/a/52667196

Why the telegram sticker link ends with _by_xxxbot?

Sticker pack created by bot should end with this suffix as enforced by Telegram.

To avoid this, upload telegram stickers manually using https://t.me/stickers