Create a Telegram bot using BotFather and Get the Api Token

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1 min readJun 11, 2018
  1. Open Telegram

2. Search @ botfather

3. Type /newbot .

4. It will show “Alright, a new bot. How are we going to call it? Please choose a name for your bot.”

5. Type the name of your bot.

6. After, it’ll show “Good. Now let’s choose a username for your bot. It must end in `bot`. Like this, for example: TetrisBot or tetris_bot.”

7. You’ve to give a unique username and it should be ending with bot.

8. After giving the name it’ll show :-

“Done! Congratulations on your new bot. You will find it at t.me/ShibinTest3bot. You can now add a description, about section and profile picture for your bot, see /help for a list of commands. By the way, when you’ve finished creating your cool bot, ping our Bot Support if you want a better username for it. Just make sure the bot is fully operational before you do this.

Use this token to access the HTTP API: “TOKEN”

For a description of the Bot API, see this page: https://core.telegram.org/bots/api

9.Copy the Api Token for further

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