Using telegram API with PHP

php curl telegram

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The Telegram API is a pain to use, you have to apply all sort of encryption sorcery to work with their MTProto protocol and there's very little reference or example for PHP available. I would suggest you use their new Bot API. It is a service the created that abstracts all the MTProto interactions behind a simple HTTP layer. You first need to generate a bot using their Bot Father and then you use the ID to interact with the API.

Receiving new messages (polling):

<?php

$bot_id = "<bot ID generated by BotFather>";

# Note: you want to change the offset based on the last update_id you received
$url = 'https://api.telegram.org/bot' . $bot_id . '/getUpdates?offset=0';
$result = file_get_contents($url);
$result = json_decode($result, true);

foreach ($result['result'] as $message) {
    var_dump($message);
}

Sending messages:

# The chat_id variable will be provided in the getUpdates result
$url = 'https://api.telegram.org/bot' . $bot_id . '/sendMessage?text=message&chat_id=0';
$result = file_get_contents($url);
$result = json_decode($result, true);

var_dump($result['result']);

You can also use a webhook instead of polling for updates. You can find more information in the API documentation I linked.

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Amirmasoud

Updated on July 08, 2022

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Amirmasoud almost 2 years

I'm trying to use the Telegram API to make an online advertising app with PHP, but the problem I have is that I can't even understand making request to telegram website. This is a short code I wrote based on Telegram's API and protocol:

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
    <title></title>
    <meta http-equiv="Content-Length" content="348">
    <meta http-equiv="Connection" content="keep-alive">
    <meta http-equiv="Host" content="149.154.167.40:80">
</head>

<body>
<?php
$url = '149.154.167.40';

$curl = curl_init();
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_URL, $url);

$result = curl_exec($curl);

echo $result;

?>
</body>
</html>

Does anyone have any idea how to make it work?