How I measure a scam checker, and why name-only checks catch 5.7% of phishing
I built a Telegram bot, Plumbline , that checks links, Telegram handles and TON wallets for scam signs. Before launch I wanted to know how good it a…
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How to Scrape Telegram Channels and Groups
Key Takeaways Telegram provides a free official API. So, the main challenges lie in following privacy regulations, adapting to MTProto, and managing…
Tea Bro: a Telegram Mini App for tea-by-state matching and daily check-ins
Tea Bro is a free Telegram bot (and Mini App) built around a simple idea: a cup of tea is a low-friction reason to notice your state — and the produ…
How to build a Telegram video downloader bot
A link-in, video-out bot is about forty lines once the resolving is somebody else's problem. This guide is the whole path: link to media URL, media…
Telegram Bot vs Telegram Scraper: Which One You Actually Need (No API Key Required)
A "Telegram bot" and a "Telegram scraper" solve the same request — get me the messages in this channel — with opposite architectures. After shipping…
Telegram Scraping in Python Without an API Key: The Public-Preview Collector That Survives
Most "Telegram scraping in Python" tutorials tell you to install Telethon, register an API ID with your phone number, and log in as a user bot. Fine…
Telegram Viewer in Your Browser: Reading Public Channels Without the App (and What Builders Can Do With It)
You can read a public Telegram channel in a browser without installing anything. Type t.me/s/<channel-name> and you get the last ~20 posts as…
Telegram View Counts: How to Spot a Botted Channel in Five Minutes
Every buyer of Telegram ad slots has seen the pitch: a channel with 80,000 subscribers, views averaging 40,000 per post, engagement rate a healthy 5…
What You Can Actually See in a Public Telegram Channel Without an Account
Searches for "see telegram channel without account" return a wall of shrugs. Here is the precise inventory of what the public web preview exposes, a…
Your Telegram Preview Crawl Is a Population, Not a Census: Post-ID Cursors and Coverage Ceilings
Every guide to scraping t.me/s/<channel> says the same thing: you can get the latest ~20 posts per fetch, no login. Nobody warns you about wha…
Git Push as OSINT Infrastructure: Zero-Server Telegram Collection on GitHub Actions
Short version: the cheapest OSINT infra that actually survives an incident is git push + cron . Long version, with the numbers. I run Telegram chann…
A Zero-Server Telegram OSINT Pipeline: t.me/s Previews + GitHub Actions + Git as the Database
You do not need a server to monitor public Telegram channels. My entire ingestion stack runs on GitHub Actions cron at zero marginal cost, and the w…
Telegram Stars payouts: the app-store cut hits the buyer, not you
Most guides on Telegram Stars monetization get one thing wrong, and it quietly wrecks your revenue planning: they treat the ~30% app-store fee as if…
Discord and Telegram bot platform changes, up to September 28, 2026
Disclosure: this digest is generated automatically by an AI pipeline from the official changelogs linked under each item. It is not hand-written, an…
Sending Telegram Bot Messages with PHP cURL: Handling HTTP Status, JSON Errors, and Telegram's ok Field
Introduction When you need to send a simple message from a Telegram bot, the most direct way is to call the sendMessage method over HTTPS. Using PHP…
Build a Telegram Support Agent With Human Approval
In this tutorial you'll build a Telegram support bot on Flowra. Customers message your bot, and an AI agent answers from your FAQ. When the agent tr…
Searching 95,000 Telegram channels: what actually works for Chinese-language content
Telegram search is fine for finding a message in a chat you are already in. It is close to useless for finding a chat — and if the content is Chines…
Telegram's username field can be an empty string — and which handle to use instead
Ask the Telegram API for @durov and read the username field. It comes back as "" . Not null, not missing. An empty string, on the account of the per…
How I Protected My Telegram Bot's AI Quota From Spam Users
I run a Telegram bot that uses Google's Gemini API for free-tier AI features. The free tier gives 1,500 requests per day. Last week, one user sent 1…
Securely Authenticate Users with the Telegram Login Widget in PHP and Yii2
Integrating the Telegram Login Widget provides a frictionless authentication flow for web applications. However, accepting raw authentication parame…
Telethon is alive on Codeberg. Its GitHub repo has been archived since February
Here is how most of us decide whether a library is safe to depend on: open its GitHub page, look at the last commit, glance at open issues, check th…
Implement Telegram Bot Long Polling in PHP for Local Development
When developing Telegram bots locally, setting up public HTTPS webhooks usually requires third-party tunneling tools like Ngrok or Cloudflare Tunnel…
Best Telegram Monetization Platforms in 2026
Search for the best Telegram monetization platforms and you will usually see very different products grouped together as Telegram monetization tools…
Implement a Telegram Bot API Client in Yii2: Dependency Injection, 429 Retries, and Logging
Integrating third-party HTTP services directly into controller actions or queue handlers without an abstraction layer creates fragile, unmaintainabl…
Execute Telegram sendMessage Requests in Raw PHP: Timeouts, JSON Parsing, and HTML Sanitization
Making standard HTTP requests to the Telegram Bot API using raw PHP requires more than a simple file_get_contents() call. Production environments de…
I built a chat where every word costs money — on TON, solo, no legal entity
Hi! I'm a mobile developer (Kotlin by day), and a couple of weeks ago I started a side project with a simple, slightly audacious idea: a chat where…
HeyGen + Telegram Avatar: Fixing the Format Gap with ffmpeg
I've been using HeyGen to create talking-head clips for product demos. The results look good. But when I tried to set one as my Telegram video avata…
AI-Powered Price Tracking for Latin America: Building PreciosML
How We Monitor500K+ Product Prices Across Latin America Every Hour Price monitoring in Latin America sounds simple. Until you try it. Between Falabe…
How I built an Open Budget Uzbekistan Telegram bot with AI captcha solving
Open Budget Uzbekistan is a government platform where citizens vote for public initiative projects (parks, roads, lighting, etc.) in their districts…
Is “leave a Telegram group now, get a way back later” useful — or just an overengineered bookmark?
Sometimes I want to leave a Telegram group for a while — not just mute or archive it — but still have a deliberate way back later. I built a small o…