Is it possible to login bot by using a token?

[lonamiwebs]

Is it possible to login bot by using a token?

[Lonami]

Note to newcomers: things have evolved since this issue was first posted, and Telethon now makes it just as easy to write bots as it does to write scripts that control user accounts (although that could be seen further below). So yes, Telethon can be used to make bots too.

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If I understood correctly, no. Telethon is for using Telegram as a normal client would, not for bots. You can build a bot with this and it would seem to be a normal use, but you can't control Telegram bots per se with Telethon. You can, however, manage them by talking to the @BotFather, in the same way you can do with any client.

[Lonami]

By the way, if you want to build a bot, maybe Lonabot is a good start, if you're looking for something that I made. There are tons of other libraries out there.

[exzhawk]

I want to access full MTProto method rather than normal vanilla bot API. What I need is a bot token login method like Telegram-CLI --bot (https://github.com/vysheng/tg/wiki/Telegram-CLI-Arguments).
I believe if Telegram-CLI can do it, all MTProto lib can do it as well. I think it's just about auth staff. If you have no plan of this feature, I'll try to implement.

[Lonami]

What I need is a bot token login method like Telegram-CLI --bot

But there's no bot token, is there? It's just a normal user, and it would need a phone (even if it is just a virtual one), as far as I know.

If you have no plan of this feature

I don't know if it's possible to use a bot token to access the full list of methods as a normal user would, but if you manage to succeed, I'd be glad to merge!

[exzhawk]

@XyLoNaMiyX if you use Telegram-CLI --bot to start it, it will ask you a bot token instead of phone number and code. Then the client works like a normal one but you are a bot. You can chat with others like normal user. But bot limitations are still there, like you can't initiate a new chat.

[Lonami]

I see… Pretty cool. Maybe we could make a different class, TelegramBotClient, which behaved just like the normal TelegramClient but was a bot.

[Lonami]

I have more questions. What are we supposed to implement for the bot? Should we parse the bot methods just like we parsed the original .tl methods? Is this only for the interactive client, or as another client (TelegramBotClient)? Thing is a bot works quite differently than how a normal user does. Perhaps this should be a completely separate project?

[JuanPotato]

you dont need to implement anything other than the authorize
auth.importBotAuthorization#67a3ff2c flags:int api_id:int api_hash:string bot_auth_token:string = auth.Authorization;
then everything else works like a normal user, but some methods are disabled and others are limited. Like adding users to group etc

[Lonami]

I didn't know that was a thing @JuanPotato, thanks for pointing us in the right direction!

[Lonami]

Usage: client.sign_in(bot_token='your hash').

[mktcockpit]

Can this works on the telegram desktop application?