Telegram Dictionary

Anton Maydell a software developer who worked with Telegram in its early days; current position unknown, probably works on the API if still at Telegram #people#dev#employee

GramJS a JavaScript Telegram API client; a modified version of it is used in Web A github.com/gram-js/gramjs #community#lib

ntgcalls a native library for interacting with group calls that is lightweight compared to tgcalls and provides static builds with C interfaces github.com/pytgcalls/ntgcalls #community#lib

pytgcalls an unmaintained Python library for interacting with group calls authored by the same person who created Telegram Crawler; not to be confused with py-tgcalls github.com/MarshalX/tgcalls #community#lib

py-tgcalls based on ntgcalls, a Python library for interacting with group calls; formerly based on tgcallsjs; not to be confused with pytgcalls github.com/pytgcalls/pytgcalls #community#lib

tgcallsjs an unmaintained JavaScript library for interacting with group calls that was built from parts of telegram-react github.com/tgcallsjs/tgcalls #community#lib

voice chat the former name of group calls from Dec 2020 until Jun 2021 when video support was added to them

video chat another name for group calls

group call (also video chat, formerly voice chat) a type of call that can be created within channels or groups, can have an unlimited number of listeners, and up to 10 simultaneous speakers