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

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…

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

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"…

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…

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…

A Bot API method to remove all bot commands from all scopes and languages

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…

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…

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 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…

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…

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…

Allow bots to make calls via the BOT API.

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…

Server-Side 1. Group description is lost when you upgrade a basic group to supergroup 1. All messages are marked as read by all users when a basic group upgrades to supergroup Bot API 1. unpinAllChatMessages…

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…

Channel new and left members in update "chat_member"

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.

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…

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…

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…

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

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.…

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…

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…

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…

Increase BOT API send file limit from 50MB to 100MB.

Hi! Since a few weeks ago, my bots that use the Telegram Bot API sometimes lead the bot into a state where it's unable to edit its own messages. All other functionalities of the bot API function correctly…

When I send message to my Cloudflare Workers webhook bot (@cfworkers_bot), it doesn't see message. When I request webhook info, it reports that there is SSL problem. www.ssllabs.com/ssltest doesn't reports…

Allow that inline_keyboard have only a text value, so when user click on this button, this text is just sent back to bot. It is useful for private talks where bot could suggests some common responses…

its update from telegram bot api (without frameworks): {"update_id":247007320,"message":{"message_id":4563,"from":{"id":000000000,"is_bot":false,"first_name":"000000000","username":"saner99","language_code":"ru"}…

When I request chat using @username, it return 400 But it works if I pass not my @userName but my userId. Regarding to documentation I should obtain chat by userId OR by username: https://core.telegr…

Two users would be able to agree via bot to receive a private message from the other with no possibility to report it as spam.

Do an automatic callback query answer immediatelly after server response with a OK. Currently, a button that sends a callback data will waits for an answerCallbackQuery command, and it could be slower…

For those of us who don't know about programming (and don't know how to create bots), could Telegram create an official bot that creates bots for posts and comments? @Fleepbot style