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PTB Resources

PTB offers different resources that help you understand and use the features of the library.

• The package documentation is the technical reference for python-telegram-bot. It contains descriptions of all available classes, modules, methods and arguments.
• This wiki is home to number of more elaborate introductions of the different features of python-telegram-bot and other useful resources that go beyond the technical documentation.
• Our examples directory contains several examples that showcase the different features of both the Bot API and python-telegram-bot. Even if it is not your approach for learning, please take a look at echobot.py. It is the de facto base for most of the bots out there. The code for these examples is released to the public domain, so you can start by grabbing the code and building on top of it.
• The official Telegram Bot API documentation is of course always worth a read.

Contributing to this Wiki

If you stumble upon a part of the wiki that is unclear or missing important points, please go ahead and drop us a message in our Telegram Group, or just edit the part yourself (anyone can contribute). We'd like our wiki to be as complete as possible 🙂

Structure of this Wiki

In the sidebar to the right, you can find all important pages of this wiki. They are roughly organized by the following logic:

Must read

Introductory articles and frequently referenced pages.

Concepts & Important Elements

Introductions & explanations of how the components of telegram.ext work and interact with each other.

Notable Features

Elaborate explanation to more advanced features of telegram.ext.

Code Resources

Some other resources that are not exclusively PTB-specific.

Examples Explained

An effort to make the examples even more accessible. You are very welcome to extend this section!

Networking

Articles about advanced networking questions.

Other resources

More interesting & helpful stuff that can't be found in any of the above sections.

Transition Guides

Major versions usually come with breaking changes, i.e. changes that lead to code failing after upgrading. Those guides help to ease the transition.

Administration

Interesting mostly for the maintainers. They, too, need a place to take notes 🙂