An edited 1.24.0 version of the full-featured Telegram client library for Python 3


Keywords
telegram, api, chat, client, library, messaging, mtproto
License
MIT
Install
pip install newthon==1.2.6

Documentation

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About

A simple clone of the awesome Telegram MTproto client version 1.24.0 but with up to date components, You do not have to change previous code with telethon, as there are no breaking changes.

install: (if any issues, try uninstalling telethon first):

pip install -U newthon

Email login

Added email_code argument to client.sign_in() to login via code if sent to mail.

Reactions and status

Added client.set_status(document_id, until) for premium accounts' CustomEmoji in profile. Added add_to_recent argument for reactions.

About reactions:

client.send_reaction(chat, message, "😢")

or shorter:

message.react("😁", big=True)

Reactions with large animation (for pms) big=True. To remove a reaction use message.react(remove=True), and, to add a react to recents too, use add_to_recent as True.

Premium

  • You can send files larger that 2GiB through Telegram
  • Premium users will have .premium in their user object
  • Premium stickers will also have .premium that might need dealing if you don't have subscription.

spoilers and custom emoji

Use ||Text|| to create spoilers, for HTML use <tg-spoiler>Text</tg-spoiler> to create a customEmoji markdown use <emoji id="5373101475679443553">😉</emoji>. the id being the document id of any CustomEmoji Document.id in its pack.

Requests of join and events for ChatAction events

  • event.new_invite (only for bot accounts)
@bot.on(events.ChatAction(func=lambda e : e.new_join_request))
async def _(event):
    event.approve_user(approved=True or False)
  • event.new_approve for user accounts
@client.on(events.ChatAction(func=lambda e : e.new_approve))
async def _(event):
    event.approve_user(approved=True/False)

using raw api to accept old requests

  • Getting them
result = client(functions.messages.GetChatInviteImportersRequest(
    peer="chat",
    offset_date=None,
    offset_user=telethon.tl.types.InputUserEmpty(),
    limit=1000
))
  • manual approve
for a in result:
    client(functions.messages.HideChatJoinRequestRequest(
        peer='chat or username',
        user_id='To-approve',
        approved=True or False
    ))
  • batch approve:
client(functions.messages.HideAllChatJoinRequestsRequest(
    peer=entity,
    approved=True or False
))

WebView Button

You can input a web bot button as an inline button or a keyboard button, sine it can be both. the default is inline button, you can use the inline=False to use it in a keyboard button

from telethon import Button
client.send_message(chat, "Open Google", buttons=Button.web("google", "https://google.com")
  • note that webapp keyboard can be only a single button, it won't allow others with it.
client.send_message(chat, "YouTube", buttons=Button.web("google", "https://YouTube.com", inline=False)

Content privacy

chat.noforwards will return True for chats with forward restriction enabled, same applies to bot messages with message.noforwards You can use the argument noforwards=True in sender methods.

client.send_message(chat, "lonami is god", noforwards=True)

links in get message

You can now get a single message using the link in get/iter_messages.

client.get_messages("https://t.me/username/1")

The message object will also have .link attribute, which will return link of the message

Extra

Added client.get_gallery(message), which fetches all the grouped messages belonging to it.

client.get_participant(chat, aggressive=True, sleep=2)