Telegram Bots

Long polling, webhooks, sessions and deployment guides for aiogram, Telethon, grammY and other Telegram libraries.

  1. Telegram Bots4 min read

    Hosting a Java Telegram Bot With TelegramBots

    Build a Telegram bot in Java with the TelegramBots library's long-polling application, package it as a runnable JAR, size the JVM and deploy it to run 24/7.

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    Accepting Payments in a Telegram Bot

    How payments work in Telegram bots — Telegram Stars for digital goods, provider payments for physical goods, the invoice flow, and hosting it so no payment is lost.

  3. Telegram Bots6 min read

    Debugging a Telegram Bot That Stops Responding

    A systematic way to find out why a Telegram bot has gone quiet — process health, 409 conflicts, webhooks, frozen event loops, crashes, privacy mode and revoked tokens.

  4. Telegram Bots5 min read

    Building an Inline Mode Telegram Bot

    Let users call your Telegram bot from any chat with inline queries — enabling inline mode, answering fast, caching, pagination, feedback and privacy considerations.

  5. Telegram Bots6 min read

    Migrating a Telegram Bot From Heroku, Railway or Render

    Move a Telegram bot from Heroku, Railway or Render without losing updates or sessions — inventory, webhook changes, session files, data export and a clean cutover.

  6. Telegram Bots5 min read

    Choosing a Telegram Bot Plan: Free, Starter, Pro or Ultra

    Which Kerit Cloud Telegram plan fits your bot — what Free, Starter, Pro and Ultra include, typical workloads for each, and the signals that it's time to upgrade.

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    Handling Files and Media in Telegram Bots

    Receive, send, store and process files in Telegram bots — file_id reuse, size limits, downloading safely, media groups, and keeping disk and memory under control.

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    Scheduling Messages and Background Jobs in Telegram Bots

    Reminders, daily digests and scheduled broadcasts that survive restarts — database-driven scheduling, APScheduler, time zones and avoiding missed or duplicate jobs.

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    Hosting a Telegraf Bot on Node.js

    Deploy a Telegraf 4 Telegram bot to production — filters, error handling, sessions, graceful stops, webhooks and the launch quirks that catch people out.

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    Securing Your Telegram Bot Token and Admin Commands

    Protect your Telegram bot from takeover and abuse — token handling, revoking leaks, verifying admins by ID, validating callbacks, webhook secrets and safe input.

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    Running Multiple Telegram Bots on One Server

    Three ways to run several Telegram bots on one server — one process for many bots, a process manager, or separate servers — with resource and isolation trade-offs.

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    Storing Telegram Bot State: SQLite, MySQL or PostgreSQL

    How to store users, settings and conversation state for a Telegram bot — choosing SQLite, MySQL or PostgreSQL, handling chat IDs correctly and surviving restarts.

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    Telegram Bot API Limits and How to Stay Under Them

    The Telegram Bot API limits that matter in practice — messages per chat, group and broadcast rates, file sizes, text lengths — and patterns to stay within them.

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    Setting Up a Telegram Webhook Over HTTPS

    Register a secure Telegram webhook — HTTPS requirements, secret tokens, allowed updates, fast responses, health checks and testing locally with a tunnel.

  15. Telegram Bots5 min read

    Telethon and Pyrogram Session Files: Keep Your Userbot Logged In

    How Telethon and Pyrogram session files work, how to create them safely, keep them across restarts and redeploys, and avoid the dreaded re-login loop.

  16. Telegram Bots5 min read

    Building and Hosting a grammY Bot With Node.js

    Build a grammY Telegram bot with error handling, sessions and graceful shutdown, then deploy it on Node.js with polling or webhooks — and run it on Bun or Deno.

  17. Telegram Bots5 min read

    Hosting a pyTelegramBotAPI (telebot) Bot

    Deploy a pyTelegramBotAPI (telebot) bot that stays online — reliable polling, threading pitfalls, error handling, inline keyboards and a clean production setup.

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    Deploying an aiogram 3 Bot Step by Step

    Build a structured aiogram 3 bot with routers, middleware and a database, then deploy it to an always-on server with environment variables and clean shutdowns.

  19. Telegram Bots6 min read

    Long Polling vs Webhooks for Telegram Bots

    How long polling and webhooks deliver Telegram updates, their real trade-offs in latency, load and setup, and how to choose and switch between them.

  20. Telegram Bots6 min read

    How to Host a Telegram Bot 24/7: The Complete Guide

    Keep a Telegram bot online around the clock — how Telegram delivers updates, hosting options, a full deployment walkthrough and a production checklist.

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