python-telegram-bot

Released v5.3 - Implement API changes of November 21st (Bot API 2.3) - JobQueue now supports datetime.timedelta in addition to seconds - JobQueue now supports running jobs only on certain days - New Filters.reply filter - Bugfix for Message.edit_reply_markup - Other bugfixes Update with pip install -U python-telegram-bot

The prophecy was fullfilled! We just released v5.2 - Implement API changes of October 3rd (games update) - Add Message.edit_* methods - Filters for the MessageHandler can now be combined using bitwise operators (& and |) - Add a way to save user- and chat-related data temporarily (check out the new conversationbot2.py example) - Other bugfixes and improvements

Just a heads up: We are aware of the Bot API changes of today, October 3rd, and we are already working on it.

A new release, at last! python-telegram-bot v5.1 is now available on PyPI Changelog: - Drop Python 2.6 support - Deprecate telegram.Emoji - Use ujson if available - Add instance methods to Message, Chat, User, InlineQuery and CallbackQuery - RegEx filtering for CallbackQueryHandler and InlineQueryHandler - New MessageHandler filters: forwarded and entity - Add Message.get_entity to correctly handle UTF-16 codepoints and MessageEntity offsets - Fix bug in ConversationHandler when first handler ends the conversation - Allow multiple Dispatcher instances - Add ChatMigrated Exception - Properly split and handle arguments in CommandHandler First of all: Sorry for letting you wait so long between two releases. Second of all: Holy shit! What an epic changelog! 7 different contributors worked on this release, and there is some cool new stuff to explore. Check out our updated examples on GitHub! As always, you can upgrade to the latest version with pip install -U python-telegram-bot

Another cool blog post that uses python-telegram-bot for a chat bot with Natural Language Processing! Link: http://blog.algorithmia.com/create-a-chatbot-telegram-python-summarize-text/ We will start collecting articles like this in the wiki, please add any articles you know (or have written yourself) here: https://github.com/python-telegram-bot/python-telegram-bot/wiki/Press

To our friends in Brazil, check out this great tutorial by Júlia Rizza: https://juliarizza.wordpress.com/2016/08/06/fazendo-um-bot-para-telegram-em-python/

We want to keep a list of projects that are related to python-telegram-bot in some way. If you are developing such a project, please add it to this list: https://github.com/python-telegram-bot/python-telegram-bot/wiki/Related-Projects

New major release v5.0 - Rework JobQueue - Introduce ConversationHandler - Add telegram.constants module There's also a small guide to help you with the transition: https://github.com/python-telegram-bot/python-telegram-bot/wiki/Transition-guide-to-Version-5.0

The just released v4.3.3 brings back proxy support that was removed with the switch to urllib3 in the v4.3 release.

Another fix release, v4.3.2, was just published. The timeout parameter is now respected again in all telegram.Bot methods. Update to latest version: $ pip install -U python-telegram-bot

We just released a fix release v4.3.1, because v4.3 had a wrong version of urllib3 as minimum requirement. Please also check out our new wiki articles! Webhooks: https://github.com/python-telegram-bot/python-telegram-bot/wiki/Webhooks Hosting a bot at baum.xyz: https://github.com/python-telegram-bot/python-telegram-bot/wiki/Hosting-a-bot-at-baum.xyz

Released v4.3 - Use urllib3.PoolManager for connection re-use - Rewrite run_async decorator to re-use threads - New requirements: urllib3 and certifi This release significantly improves performance, so we decided to release it separetely from v5.0, which is coming during the next weeks.