Telethon/README.rst
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Telethon
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⭐️ Thanks **everyone** who has starred the project, it means a lot!
|logo| **Telethon** is an `asyncio
<https://docs.python.org/3/library/asyncio.html>`_ **Python 3** library
to interact with Telegram's API.
**If you're upgrading from Telethon pre-1.0 to 1.0, please make sure to read**
`this section of the documentation
<https://telethon.readthedocs.io/en/latest/extra/basic/asyncio-magic.html>`_,
or ``pip install telethon-sync`` which is compatible with `synchronous code
<https://github.com/LonamiWebs/Telethon/tree/sync>`_. Don't forget to remove
the asynchronous version (``pip uninstall telethon``) if you do install sync.
What is this?
-------------
Telegram is a popular messaging application. This library is meant
to make it easy for you to write Python programs that can interact
with Telegram. Think of it as a wrapper that has already done the
heavy job for you, so you can focus on developing an application.
Installing
----------
.. code:: sh
pip3 install telethon
Creating a client
-----------------
.. code:: python
from telethon import TelegramClient, sync
# These example values won't work. You must get your own api_id and
# api_hash from https://my.telegram.org, under API Development.
api_id = 12345
api_hash = '0123456789abcdef0123456789abcdef'
client = TelegramClient('session_name', api_id, api_hash)
client.start()
Doing stuff
-----------
.. code:: python
print(client.get_me().stringify())
client.send_message('username', 'Hello! Talking to you from Telethon')
client.send_file('username', '/home/myself/Pictures/holidays.jpg')
client.download_profile_photo('me')
messages = client.get_messages('username')
messages[0].download_media()
Next steps
----------
Do you like how Telethon looks? Check out `Read The Docs
<http://telethon.rtfd.io/>`_ for a more in-depth explanation,
with examples, troubleshooting issues, and more useful information.
.. |logo| image:: logo.svg
:width: 24pt
:height: 24pt