An option to view Bot statistics in Bot Father, for example how many users started a conversation with the Bot! App: all

Allow bot to react on message and get the users who reacted on a specific message_id in a specific chat

Bots on telegram shouldn't require a verified Facebook/twitter/Instagram to get verified. Reasoning for this is that a lot of bots are telegram specific, and have no reason to have any presence on other…

Currently, Bot API doesn't allow bots to see when users delete messages, they can see if an user edits a message, it would be useful for several use cases for telegram bots to be able to tell when messages…

Bots should be able to temporarily/permanently block users. When a user is blocked by the bot, the bot won't receive any updates from the user. Workaround A possible workaround is to temporarily "ban"…

New telegram update broke the bots in channels. They can't send messages though they should. Steps to reproduce 1. add bot to channel 2. post a message Current Result The bot is unable to send messages…

First start command message of a BOT doesn't receive the language of the user client Steps to reproduce Start a new bot Current result Bot receive the start message update without language_code field…

Bot API updates should have a ChatMember field, which contains member status information, such as group membership, permissions/admin rights, and status (admin, restricted, member) This would help: -…

Method delete all BotCommandScope for a bot. Its possible that bots sometimes lose track of which scopes have been given to which users/chats. It should be possible to wipe all of these. Bonus points…

Create a Bot API schema, containing current Bot API version, all the objects, types and methods. Currently, there is a JSON schema, but it only stands for MTProto and is not actually compatible with Bot…

Remove Bot API deleteMessage time limitation. The method editMessage do have no time limits, also there is no deletions time limit if used tdlib. So there is a ways to bypass that limitation, but why…

Users ask why X bot doesn't reply. A common case is @StoreBot, which was quite popular when the bots were launched, but now it has been abandoned years ago. Suggestion Add a notice informing to the user…

Allow bots to send media albums by album_id. Alternatively, add a new field to the message type which contains all the pictures/captions in the album. This would make it considerably easier for bots to…

Allow bot owners to remove their bot's about text, description or user picture by sending /empty when asked to send the new about text, description or user picture (via BotFather). This is already possible…

Colection of app, bot API o server problems that cause friction after the upgrade. Server-Side 1. [Fixed] Group description is lost after the upgrade 1. [Intended] All messages are marked as read by…

FYI: I couldn't figure out how to report issue related to Bot API so I just selected ios version. Just before I started receiving duplicates I revoked bot token. When getUpdate API method is called via…

Bots should support passing a "reason" field for any actions which show up in recent actions (eg ban, delete, promote). This is similar to what the discord bot api provides. This would allow admins to…

The bot API promoteChatMember call should support a "title" field to set the admin title at promotion time, instead of relying on a second API call.

Steps to reproduce 1. Open a shopping cart (in a bot) 2. Try paying with GooglePay or by entering your card manually Current result PAYMENT_CREDENTIALS_INVALID error Expected result Successful payment…

Bots can choose to send messages with/without preview, and they can restrict previews through telegram permissions, but they never actually know that there is a preview on a message when they receive…

Allow bots to make calls via the BOT API.

Steps to reproduce 1. In photo/media parameter pass an url and has_spoiler = true. Make sure that the file hasn’t been cached already by Telegram Server, therefore add random parameters to it (e.g add…

I have noticed an issue with the Telegram API where it is not sending all updates related to the chat_member field, specifically when a user joins a channel where my bot is a member. In my use case, I…

Support for bots to show dialogs. For example, confirmation dialogs (1) and input dialogs(2): 1) a bot could ask to the user a confirmation when he presses a bot button. You can workaround this changing…

Changes to chat information (pic, name, description, privacy, permissions) should be sent in a new update type; similar to the new ChatMember updates. Personally, I ask this because I would be interested…

Once a month, I get pinned_message with a value null in response to the call getChat in the chats, where pinned messages are accessible in the telegram client. And if I pin a new message, it's then available…

Users should be able to set langiage dependent commands directly via @BotFather. This was recently added and is possible using the /setMyCommands method in the API, but why can't we do it directly (and…

add the same option as described in KeyboardButton to the InlineKeyboardButton if it's not allowed (in group chat) --- don't display/igonre this button. the callback_data is desired too. just pass contact…

copyMessage has reply_markup specified as optional, so if the parameter is not specified, I would expect the reply_markup of the original message to be used, instead of copying without any reply_markup.…

Related: GitHub issue Allow bots to delete all messages from a group member (possibly including other bots) if they have the corresponding admin permission, like users can do already, by allowing them…

Telegram bots can already request coordinates and contacts. Lacks the ability to request a QR code, and other types of codes read by a smartphone camera, which is also integrated into the application.

Channel new and left members in update "chat_member"

A method "getChatMemberOnlineCount" in the bot API. Getting the member count from the bot API already exists as seen here: https://core.telegram.org/bots/api#getchatmembercount I propose an addition to…

My bot goal is to approve join requests to a channel and send message to a user. It’s working when user request to join for first time, but when he left channel and trying again, bot approve request but…

I'm bot developer, I want to make Bot Payments available for Belarusian users and I'd like to help with integrating payment processing system with support of Belarusian Ruble (BYN) in order to make payments…

No update when deleting group for all members Steps to reproduce 1. Create a group 2. Add only the bot 3. In the group I tap on the three ... in the right top corner. 4. Choose Delete and leave group…

With the bot API, using setWebHook (or getUpdates for that matter), a bot never gets an update when a given message (that generated an update) is deleted. That is, the bot CANNOT IN ANY WAY ever find…

In particular this: In all other places characters '_', '*', '[', ']', '(', ')', '~', '`', '>', '#', '+', '-', '=', '|', '{', '}', '.', '!' must be escaped with the preceding character '\'. Many of these…

I want bot api call users in group and other one user (similar as call center)

When I try to integrate Stripe payments (either Live or Test) with my Telegram bot through Botfather, it fails when I complete the OAuth flow. This happens only with an Indian Stripe account Steps to…

Bot API: The Method editMessageMedia will update the image/video but the sizing gets messed up in mobile view causing either awful scaling or the image appearing shifted in the app. This only happens…

In BOT API, the setMessageReaction returns True even for blocked users, even when the reaction was not successfully set on the message. Steps to reproduce 1. Create a Bot, and Send a Message to the bot.…

botfather says that the "About" text can't contain line breaks, but it can Steps to reproduce 1. create a new bot in @BotFather 2. set "About" text with line breaks 3. profit Screenshots

Steps to reproduce 1. Create a New Group 2. Send some individual messages to the basic group chat 3. Pin all messages in the group 4. Upgrade the group to a supergroup For example by changing the 'Chat…

Please update the api bots to recognize topics in group and execute variable settings per topic.

When you send a request like for example deleteMessage, editMessageText and the like, and you get an error response, the error response contains way too little information. The only properties are 'error_code'…

Found an interesting behavior with Bots and language codes, as we’re making Bot for Argentina and Brazil: — Telegram client supports Portuguese-Brazilian language, which comes as “pt-br” in user data…

Telegram bot API method getChatMembersCount() returns wrong count Despite on Telegram shows 2 visible members across all devices (IOS, Windows, Android), method getChatMembersCount of bot returns 3 members.…

In MarkdownV2, "\" should be marked as a special character that must be escaped as well. https://core.telegram.org/bots/api#formatting-options Steps to reproduce Try to send string: '\.' It is counted…

I'm a group manager bot creator and I realized that some users have found a bug in telegram, they put some specific characters in their message, when that message is sent, no update is sent to bot api…