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Create a Telegram bot using Python and Heroku for FREE

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Introduction

Today we will be learning how to create a telegram bot and host it on heroku.

Prerequisites 

  1. A telegram account (duh!)
  2. Some experience with Python (for adding more features to the bot)
  3. A Heroku account -- Sign up here!
  4. A GitHub account -- Sign up here!

Create a telegram bot using Father Bot

  1. Search for @BotFather on Telegram
  2. Send message /newbot
  3. The bot will reply asking for a name for the bot, send whatever you like
  4. Next we have to chose a username for the bot, this must be unique and must end with bot. Example - testbot, telebot
    1. If the username is not unique, it will ask to enter again.
  5. That is it! You will receive a congrats message with a link and a token (copy paste it somewhere!)
  6. Your bot is right now dead and won't respond back :(, it needs a back-end server that is where Heroku comes in.

Deploying on Heroku

  1. Thanks to Kylmakalle, we have a good starter pack for Heroku telegram bot.
  2. Head over to https://github.com/Kylmakalle/heroku-telegram-bot#deploying-via-heroku-dashboard-gui and follow the instructions there.
  3. The starter pack python script has zero features. You can use https://github.com/python-telegram-bot/python-telegram-bot to add features (be sure to check out their wiki pages for documentation)
  4. That's it! Your bot is now alive :)
Thank you for reading this article.
If you have any doubts or questions, post down in the comments section below.
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