Python script for sending Telegram Messages

Initial Steps:

First of all, create a bot using Telegram BotFather. To create a BotFather follow the below steps –

Open the telegram app and search for @BotFather.

• Click on the start button or send "/start".
• Then send "/newbot" message to set up a name and a username.
• After setting name and username BotFather will give you an API token which is your bot token.

Then create an app on the telegram. Follow the below steps –

• Log into the telegram core: https://my.telegram.org
• Go to 'API development tools' and fill out the form.
• You will get the api_id and api_hash parameters required for user authorization.

Python modules

• telebot: pip3 install telebot==0.0.3
• telethon: pip3 install telethon==1.16.4
• configparser: pip3 install configparser==3.5.0b1

Or, simply run pip3 install -r requirements.txt

Set the configuration

Before executing the script, please add the configuration details in config.ini file.

Execute the script

python3 telegram_bot.py