Telegram as a New Platform for Your Services
summary
Shows how to build Telegram-based services with Node.js using the Telegraf library and the raw webhook flow, including a five-line HelloWorld and a longer native implementation to illustrate what Telegraf abstracts. Demonstrates interactive features like buttons, inline bots, payments (invoice checkout with zero Telegram commission), embedded Web Apps for full UI, live location, HTML games, and mentions real-world cases (burger marketplace, Sber course) plus practical limits (about 30 requests/sec) and the requirement that users have Telegram.
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chapters (12)
- 0:00Introduction
- 3:31What are interfaces
- 5:17Creating first bot
- 7:05Telegram Bot API
- 11:00Real use cases
- 13:33Inline bots and HTML games
- 15:21Payments in Telegram
- 16:46Apps inside Telegram
- 19:14Pros and limitations
- 22:33Summary and outlook
- 23:56Workshop announcement
- 24:44Q&A
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