Telegram.Bot 22.5.0-dev.12
.NET Client for Telegram Bot API
Telegram.Bot is the most popular .NET Client for Telegram Bot API.
The Bot API is an HTTP-based interface created for developers keen on building bots for Telegram.
Check 👉 Bots: An introduction for developers 👈 to understand what a Telegram bot is and what it can do.
We, the Telegram Bots team, mainly focus on developing multiple NuGet packages for creating chatbots.
➡️ If Bot API is too limited for your use cases you can try Telegram Client API implementation written 100% in C# https://github.com/wiz0u/WTelegramClient
| Packages | Documentation | News Channel | Team | Group Chat |
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| nuget.org package feed | Telegram bots book | Subscribe to 📣 @tgbots_dotnet channel to get our latest news |
The team contributing to this work | Join our chat 💬 to talk about bots and ask questions |
🔨 Getting Started
Please check ➡️ the Quickstart guide.
🚧 Supported Platforms
Project targets .NET Standard 2.0 and .NET 6 at minimum, with .NET 8 or more recent recommended.
📦 Extension Packages
This project is referred to as the core package and is always required for developing Telegram bots. There are extension packages that you can include in your bot projects for additional functionality:
✅ Correctness & Testing
This project is fully tested using Unit tests and Systems Integration tests before each release. In fact, our test cases are self-documenting and serve as examples for Bot API methods. Once you learn the basics of Telegram chatbots, you will be able to easily understand the code in examples and use it in your own bot projects.
🗂 References
No packages depend on Telegram.Bot.
Added helper methods PlainLength, ToPlain and Truncate in HtmlText
.NET 6.0
- Microsoft.Extensions.Options.ConfigurationExtensions (>= 8.0.0)
- System.Text.Json (>= 8.0.5)
.NET Standard 2.0
- IndexRange (>= 1.0.3)
- Microsoft.Extensions.Options.ConfigurationExtensions (>= 8.0.0)
- System.ComponentModel.Annotations (>= 5.0.0)
- System.Text.Json (>= 8.0.5)
- System.Threading.Tasks.Extensions (>= 4.5.4)
| Version | Downloads | Last updated |
|---|---|---|
| 22.5.0-dev.24 | 1 | 04/06/2025 |
| 22.5.0-dev.23 | 2 | 04/06/2025 |
| 22.5.0-dev.15 | 1 | 04/06/2025 |
| 22.5.0-dev.14 | 0 | 03/08/2025 |
| 22.5.0-dev.13 | 1 | 04/06/2025 |
| 22.5.0-dev.12 | 2 | 04/05/2025 |
| 22.5.0-dev.9 | 1 | 04/06/2025 |
| 22.5.0-dev.8 | 1 | 04/06/2025 |
| 22.5.0-dev.7 | 3 | 04/05/2025 |
| 22.5.0-dev.6 | 1 | 04/06/2025 |
| 22.4.5-dev.4 | 1 | 04/05/2025 |
| 22.4.4 | 2 | 04/05/2025 |
| 22.4.3 | 0 | 02/16/2025 |
| 22.4.2 | 0 | 02/15/2025 |
| 22.4.1 | 0 | 02/13/2025 |
| 22.4.0 | 0 | 02/12/2025 |
| 22.3.0 | 0 | 01/03/2025 |
| 22.2.0 | 0 | 12/04/2024 |
| 22.1.3 | 0 | 11/22/2024 |
| 22.1.2 | 0 | 11/21/2024 |
| 22.1.1 | 0 | 11/20/2024 |
| 22.1.0 | 0 | 11/18/2024 |
| 22.0.2 | 0 | 11/05/2024 |
| 22.0.1 | 0 | 11/05/2024 |
| 22.0.0 | 0 | 11/03/2024 |
| 19.0.0 | 0 | 05/07/2023 |
| 19.0.0-preview.4 | 0 | 04/30/2023 |
| 19.0.0-preview.2 | 0 | 01/02/2023 |
| 19.0.0-preview.1 | 0 | 12/03/2022 |
| 18.0.0 | 0 | 06/16/2022 |
| 18.0.0-alpha.3 | 0 | 04/29/2022 |
| 18.0.0-alpha.2 | 0 | 04/25/2022 |
| 18.0.0-alpha.1 | 0 | 02/13/2022 |
| 17.0.0 | 0 | 11/17/2021 |
| 17.0.0-alpha.5 | 0 | 11/12/2021 |
| 17.0.0-alpha.4 | 0 | 11/06/2021 |
| 17.0.0-alpha.3 | 0 | 08/01/2021 |
| 17.0.0-alpha.2 | 0 | 08/01/2021 |
| 17.0.0-alpha.1 | 0 | 07/11/2021 |
| 16.0.2 | 0 | 07/16/2021 |
| 16.0.1 | 0 | 07/10/2021 |
| 16.0.0 | 0 | 06/13/2021 |
| 16.0.0-alpha.2 | 0 | 05/10/2021 |
| 16.0.0-alpha.1 | 0 | 05/01/2021 |
| 15.7.1 | 0 | 06/18/2020 |
| 15.7.0 | 0 | 06/12/2020 |
| 15.6.0 | 0 | 05/30/2020 |
| 15.5.1 | 0 | 04/02/2020 |
| 15.5.0 | 0 | 04/02/2020 |
| 15.4.0 | 0 | 02/22/2020 |
| 15.3.0 | 0 | 01/31/2020 |
| 15.2.1 | 0 | 01/23/2020 |
| 15.2.0 | 0 | 01/03/2020 |
| 15.1.0 | 0 | 11/29/2019 |
| 15.0.0 | 0 | 08/07/2019 |
| 14.12.0 | 0 | 06/10/2019 |
| 14.11.0 | 0 | 04/23/2019 |
| 14.10.0 | 0 | 09/03/2018 |
| 14.9.0 | 0 | 08/06/2018 |
| 14.8.0 | 0 | 07/29/2018 |
| 14.7.0 | 0 | 07/29/2018 |
| 14.6.0 | 0 | 06/12/2018 |
| 14.5.0 | 0 | 06/07/2018 |
| 14.4.0 | 0 | 05/17/2018 |
| 14.3.0 | 0 | 05/05/2018 |
| 14.2.0-rc-452 | 0 | 02/24/2018 |
| 14.0.0-rc-367 | 0 | 01/04/2018 |
| 14.0.0-beta-342 | 0 | 01/04/2018 |
| 14.0.0-alpha0 | 0 | 12/31/2017 |
| 13.4.0 | 0 | 12/07/2017 |
| 13.4.0-rc2 | 0 | 11/27/2017 |
| 13.4.0-rc1 | 0 | 11/26/2017 |
| 13.3.0-rc1 | 0 | 10/28/2017 |
| 13.2.1 | 0 | 09/04/2017 |
| 13.1.0 | 0 | 07/23/2017 |