A professional toolkit for building, deploying, and managing Telegram bots with support for advanced API methods and message formatting.
Install & Download
1. ClawHub CLI
The fastest way to install a skill directly from the registry.
npx clawhub@latest install telegram-bot-api
2. Manual Installation
Copy the skill folder to one of these locations
~/.openclaw/skills/ <project>/skills/ Priority: Workspace > Local > Bundled
3. Prompt Installation
Copy this prompt to OpenClaw to install it automatically.
Help me install telegram-bot-api using Clawhub. If Clawhub is not installed, install it first (npm i -g clawhub).
Prefer to download?
Get the raw skill files in a ZIP archive.
What is Telegram Bot API?
The Telegram Bot API skill is a robust integration designed for developers to build sophisticated bots within the Openclaw Skills ecosystem. It provides a structured approach to interacting with Telegram's servers, ensuring that API calls are correctly formatted and that best practices for security and rate limiting are followed. This skill simplifies the complexity of bot development by providing clear guidelines on message formatting, keyboard construction, and webhook management.
By leveraging this skill, users can automate interactions on one of the world's most popular messaging platforms. It handles the nuances of chat ID types, parse modes, and file size limits, allowing developers to focus on building features rather than debugging low-level API responses. Whether you are building a simple notification bot or a complex interactive assistant, this skill provides the necessary foundation for reliable bot operations.
Telegram Bot API Use Cases
- Automating real-time notifications and alerts for server status or financial market changes.
- Building interactive customer service bots using custom inline and reply keyboards.
- Managing community engagement in groups and channels through automated moderation and broadcasting.
- Developing media-rich bots that can send photos, documents, and structured data files to users.
- Creating secure, webhook-based applications for instant response to user inputs.
How Telegram Bot API Works
- The user provides a Telegram Bot Token which is securely stored in the local memory directory to authenticate all outgoing requests.
- The skill identifies the target chat ID and determines the appropriate API method, such as sendMessage or setWebhook.
- Content is formatted according to the selected parse mode, defaulting to HTML for maximum reliability and safety.
- Requests are dispatched to the official Telegram Bot API endpoint using secure curl commands.
- The skill monitors for rate limits and errors, providing guidance on exponential backoff and message splitting when limits are approached.
Telegram Bot API Setup
To begin using this skill within Openclaw Skills, ensure you have curl installed on your system. Follow these installation steps:
# Install the Telegram Bot API skill
clawhub install telegram-bot-api
# Access the setup documentation for initial configuration
cat ~/telegram-bot-api/setup.md
Once installed, you must configure your bot tokens in the memory.md file located at ~/telegram-bot-api/ to enable API communication.
Telegram Bot API Data Schema & Taxonomy
The skill maintains a structured local filesystem to manage bot configurations and history without relying on external databases.
| Path | Purpose |
|---|---|
~/telegram-bot-api/memory.md |
Central storage for bot tokens, user preferences, and default settings. |
~/telegram-bot-api/bots/ |
Directory containing individual .md files for each specific bot configuration. |
~/telegram-bot-api/templates/ |
A library of reusable message templates to maintain consistent UI/UX. |
~/telegram-bot-api/methods.md |
Local reference for supported API methods and parameter requirements. |
Telegram Bot API Advanced Features
- Advanced parse mode selection (HTML and MarkdownV2) with automatic escaping guidance.
- Comprehensive keyboard management for both inline and reply keyboard markup.
- Intelligent rate limiting logic to prevent 429 errors in high-traffic groups.
- Multi-bot support allowing for distinct configurations and webhook URLs per instance.
- Automated message splitting logic to handle Telegram's 4096-character text limit without breaking words.
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