Pwrtelegram API

PWRTelegram was deprecated and superseded by MadelineProto.

If you want to use an HTTP API for interacting with MadelineProto, I highly recommend TelegramApiServer.

Thank you for using PWRTelegram.

Version 1.1 beta 3.
Licensed under AGPLv3.

This repository contains the source code for the pwrtelegram API, a boosted version of the official telegram bot API.

The PWRTelegram API makes use of:

• The Caddy web server.
• HHVM as fastcgi engine
• php-mediainfo
• A modified version of php-telegram-cli-client
• A modified version of telegram-cli
• A modified version of proxy.php
• telegram-lua-load

This API is written and maintained by danog (@danogentili on telegram) with the help of the folks over @BotDevelopment, especially itskenny0 (@shitposting on telegram) and Rondoozle (@POTUS on Telegram).

It is hosted on Scaleway.

The new PWRTelegram logo was created by @BayernPars.

Features:

All of the official telegram bot API features plus:

• NEW It can obtain info about the user that uploaded a certain file based on the file’s file id. Works with stickers (the creator of the sticker pack is shown) and anonymous channel media too.
• Support for deep telegram bots.
• Downloading of files up to 1.5 GB in size
• Anonymous file storage (the URL of downloaded files does not contain your bot’s token)
• Uploading of files up to 1.5 GB in size
• Uploading of files using an URL
• Re-uploading of files using a file ID and different file type or file name.
• Uploading of any file/URL/file ID with automagical type recognition.
• Uploading of any file/URL/file ID without sending the file to a specific user.
• Automagical metadata recognition of sent files/URLs/file IDs.
• Deleting of text messages sent from the bot.
• Uploading of files bigger than 5 megabytes with inline queries (supports both URLs and direct uploads)
• Automatical type recognition for files sent using answerinlinequery
• Both webhooks and getupdates are supported.
• webhook requests can be recieved even on insecure http servers.
• Resolving of usernames not only with channels and groups but also with normal users and bots.
• Added getMessage function!
• The sendChatAction function now has a duration parameter!
• Profile pictures of channels and chats can now be fetched!
• It is open source!
• It can be installed on your own server!
• You tell me!

How do I enable it?

To enable it simply substitute the URL of the bot telegram API (https://api.telegram.org) with the URL of the pwrtelegram API (https://api.pwrtelegram.xyz for normal bots and https://deepapi.pwrtelegram.xyz for deep telegram bots) in your telegram client.

You can use one of the following commands to do it:

sed -i 's/api\.telegram\.org/api\.pwrtelegram\.xyz/g' client.py
# OR
sed -i 's/api\.telegram\.org/deepapi\.pwrtelegram\.xyz/g' client.py

The client can be written in any language, not necessarily python.

Or you can manually substitute api.telegram.org with api.pwrtelegram.xyz or deepapi.pwrtelegram.xyz in your bot,

If you use webhooks you must recall the setwebhook method.

The API will automagically do the rest :)

Also please insert the following text in the response to the /start command:

This bot makes use of the @pwrtelegram bot API to enhance its features.

How do I use it?

Just use it as you would use the official telegram bot API, only bear in the following points.

• Please do not abuse of the API by uploading and/or downloading illegal or copyrighted material. The pwrtelegram API creator reserves the right to delete any illegal or copyrighted material that is found on his servers.

• The PWRTelegram API does not store in any way your bot’s token but it does store the bot’s username, the sha256 sum of uploaded files and the file ID and the size of uploaded and downloaded files.

• This API won’t be able to send big files if getUpdate or webhook requests aren’t proxied through it. This is because when the API uploads these files using tg-cli it must obtain a file_id using the official bot API, and that can be done only by intercepting the incoming update with the file.

• The methods used by the PWRTelegram API are the same ones used in the official telegram bot API, but they also have some additional features and in certain cases their behaviour is slightly modified (don’t worry, that won’t break your clients). There are also some methods that work only with the PWRTelegram API. Here’s a list:

• With this API you can use usernames to interact even with normal users and you can get info about bots using their username (with the getChat method).

• Do not send more than 50 different files (as in files with different sha256sums) without processing updates. Once reached this limit, files will not be sent if there’s an unprocessed message from a user that isn’t @pwrtelegramapi in front of the message queue (this limitation is only present if you use getupdates).

getChatByFile

NEW

Use this method to obtain info about the user that uploaded a certain file based on the file’s file id. Works with stickers (the creator of the sticker pack is shown) and anonymous channel media too.

On success, the following object is returned:

getUpdates and webhook requests.

The response of these requests will be passed trough a piece of code that will filter out messages from @pwrtelegramapi.

getFile requests.

getFile requests are intercepted and the file is downloaded using the PWRTelegram API.
The PWRTelegram API will then return a File object.
You can use the following anonymous url to download the file: https://storage.pwrtelegram.xyz/<file_path> (or https://deepstorage.pwrtelegram.xyz/<file_path> for deep telegram bots).

The anonymous download URL will be in one of the following formats:

https://storage.pwrtelegram.xyz/botusername/filename.ext
https://deepstorage.pwrtelegram.xyz/botusername/filename.ext

This way you will be able to safely share the download URL without exposing your bot’s token.

You can also trigger the caching of files already present on the telegram servers to the anonymous PWRTelegram storage server by downloading the file from the following URL: https://api.pwrtelegram.xyz/file/bot<token>/<file_path> (or https://deepapi.pwrtelegram.xyz/file/bot<token>/<file_path> for deep telegram bots). The next time you can download files directly from the anonymous URL.

If your request times out and you try to redownload the file you will be returned a json array with the following values:

• ok => true

• error_code => 202

• description => Your file is currently being downloaded. Please try again later.

You can repeat the request until you get the File object.

sendDocument, sendPhoto, sendVideo, sendAudio, sendVoice, sendSticker requests.

All of the above requests will be processed using the PWRTelegram API.

The usage of these methods is exactly the same as in the official Telegram BOT API, except that if the request contains a file URL instead of the document (or photo, etc) the file will be downloaded and sent with the given parameters.

The same will happen if you send a file ID that links to a file which type is different from the one specified in the URL or if you also provide a file name along with the file ID.

The PWRTelegram API will automagically obtain the metadata of the provided file/URL and send it along with the file itself (only if it isn’t already present in the request).

This is the metadata that will be obtained and sent:

• Video: width, height and duration as width, height and duration

• Audio: track name, author, duration as title, author, duration

• Voice: duration as duration

You can also provide a file_name parameter containing the name of the file to be sent (this is useful when sending files from a URL). If this parameter is set the PWRTelegram API will rename the file/URL you sent and resend the file with the new file name.

sendFile

Use this method to send any file/URL/file ID. This method will automagically recognize the type of file/URL uploaded and send it using the correct telegram method. It will also automagically read file metadata and attach it to the request (only if it isn’t already provided in the request). On success, the sent Message is returned.

This is the metadata that will be obtained and sent (only if not present in the request) along with the file:

• Video: width, height and duration as width, height and duration

• Audio: track name, author, duration as title, author, duration

• Voice: duration as duration

uploadFile, uploadDocument, uploadAudio, uploadVideo, uploadVoice, uploadPhoto, uploadSticker

These methods can be used to upload files to telegram without sending them to a particular user. Their usage is exactly the same as for their sendMethod counterparts, except that the chat_id, disable_notification, reply_to_message_id, reply_markup parameters will be ignored.

On success, they will return a json array containing the following elements:

• ok => true

• result =>

• file_id => Uploaded file id

• file_type => Uploaded file type

• file_size => Uploaded file size

Otherwise the error is returned.

deleteMessage

Use this method to delete text messages sent by the bot or via the bot (for inline bots).
On success, if the message is deleted by the bot, a json array is returned with the following values:

• ok => true

• result => “The message was deleted successfully.”

Otherwise the error is returned.

You can use both getupdates and webhooks to get updates

Only remember that you will have to repeat the setwebhook request to enable proxying trough the PWRTelegram API.

answerInlineQuery

The usage of this method is exactly the same as in the official telegram bot api, except that you can provide URLs to files bigger than 5 megabytes and you can set the file type to file to enable automatical type and metadata recognition.

You can also upload files using via POST: you just have to upload the files with parameter name equal to inline_file0 where 0 is the number of the file. The number has to be equal to the array index of the InlineQueryResult that will feature that file. The type_url field of that InlineQueryResult must also be empty.

Please note that it’s better to upload the big files using the upload methods and store the file ids instead of uploading them directly using the answerInlineQuery method.

getBackend

This method returns a Chat object with info about the backend pwrtelegram user.

getMessage

This message returns a Message object with info about the provided message.

sendChatAction

The usage of this method is exactly the same as in the official telegram bot api, except that you can provide a duration parameter in order to keep the action active for a period of time longer than 5 seconds.

The duration parameter accepts an integer.

getProfilePhotos

Use this method to get a list of profile pictures for a user, chat or channel. Returns a [UserProfilePhotos](https://core.telegram.org/bots/api#userprofilephotos] object.

Known bugs

• Please note that this API is still in beta and there might be small bugs. To report them contact Daniil Gentili or open an issue or submit a pull request with a fix or write to @pwrtelegramgroup.

See the issues of the repos of the pwrtelegram organization.

How can I help?

You can help by doing one or more of the following things:

• Proofreading this documentation and sending a message to the official support group if you have some corrections.
• Peer reviewing the source code of this API and reporting bugs by contacting Daniil Gentili or opening an issue or submitting a pull request with a fix or writing to @pwrtelegramgroup.
• Starring the repositories of the project and sharing it around with your friends :)

More info

For questions contact https://telegram.me/danogentili or the official support group.

Share this API and its official channel (https://telegram.me/pwrtelegram) with all of your friends! :)

Feel free to contribute with pull Requests.

Daniil Gentili (http://daniil.it)

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