Telegram.Bot is the most popular .NET Client for Telegram Bot API. The Bot API is an HTTP-based interface created for developers keen on building bots for Telegram. Check Bots: An introduction for developers to understand what a Telegram bot is and what it can do. All Bot API methods are already documented by Telegram but this book covers all you need to know to create a chatbot in .NET. There are also many concrete examples written in C#. The guides here can even be useful to bot developers using other languages/platforms as it shows best practices in developing Telegram chatbots with examples. This project is fully tested using Unit tests and Systems Integration tests before each release. In fact, our test cases are self-documenting and serve as examples for Bot API methods. Once you learn the basics of Telegram chatbots, you will be able to easily understand the code in examples and use it in your own bot program.
Features
- Project targets .NET Standard 2.0 and .NET Core 3.1 at minimum
- This project is referred to as the core package and is always required for developing Telegram bots
- There are extension packages that you can include in your bot projects for additional functionality
- This project is fully tested using Unit tests and Systems Integration tests before each release
- The Bot API is an HTTP-based interface created for developers keen on building bots for Telegram
- We, the Telegram Bots team, mainly focus on developing multiple NuGet packages for creating chatbots