python-telegram-bot/python-telegram-bot
We have made you a wrapper you can't refuse observed · 2026-08-28
Health v2 · maintenance only
91/100
- Activity 99
- Release rhythm 76
- Longevity 100
How is this computed?
round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10) — computed 2026-09-03. Adoption (stars, forks) is never an input.
- gap_med: 44
- age_days: 4075
- days_rel: 82
- days_push: 10
- n_releases_24m: 16
Adoption not part of the score
29434 stars · 6143 forks observed · 2026-08-28
What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-29, confidence not recorded
python-telegram-bot is a pure Python, asynchronous wrapper around the Telegram Bot API. It provides handlers, application builders, and utilities for building Telegram bots with modern async Python.
Use cases
- build a telegram bot in python
- handle telegram bot commands and messages
- create a chatbot for telegram
- send and receive telegram messages programmatically
- add inline keyboards and callbacks to a telegram bot
- run a telegram bot with polling or webhooks
When to choose
- you want a mature, well-documented Python library for the Telegram Bot API
- you need async support and structured handler-based bot architecture
- you want a large community and stable releases with signed artifacts
When to avoid
- you are building bots for platforms other than Telegram
- you need a synchronous-only API without asyncio
- you want a no-code or hosted bot builder rather than a code library
Facets
framework · maturity stable
api-framework chatbot sdk http-client chatbots messaging-platforms developer-tools python cross-platform telegram-bot-api async wrapper bot-framework messaging automation
4 sources
- readme: https://github.com/python-telegram-bot/python-telegram-bot · fetched 2026-08-28 · 4c0bc21a4aac
- homepage: https://python-telegram-bot.org · fetched 2026-08-29 · 4bb0840e89c5
- registry_pypi: https://pypi.org/pypi/python-telegram-bot/json · fetched 2026-08-29 · 5b97d95c6c76
- site_page: https://python-telegram-bot.org/verify-releases.html · fetched 2026-08-29 · 2bfa8801557d
Member repositories
| Repository | Role | Health v2 |
|---|---|---|
| python-telegram-bot/python-telegram-bot | main | 91 |
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