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📈 Analytical overview of Telegram channel BotNews
Channel BotNews (@botnews) in the English language segment is an active participant. Currently, the community unites 130 937 subscribers, ranking 88 in the Telegram category.
📊 Audience metrics and dynamics
Since its creation on невідомо, the project has demonstrated rapid growth, gathering an audience of 130 937 subscribers.
According to the latest data from 30 August, 2026, the channel demonstrates stable activity. Although there has been a change in the number of participants by 1 657 over the last 30 days and by 67 over the last 24 hours, overall reach remains high.
- Verification status: Verified (Officially confirmed by Telegram)
- Engagement rate (ER): The average audience engagement rate is 35.69%. Within the first 24 hours after publication, content typically collects 18.04% reactions from the total number of subscribers.
- Post reach: On average, each post receives 0 views. Within the first day, a publication typically gains 23 615 views.
- Reactions and interaction: The audience actively supports content: the average number of reactions per post is 0.
📝 Description and content policy
The author describes the resource as a platform for expressing subjective opinions:
“The official source for news about the Telegram Bot API. https://core.telegram.org/bots”
Thanks to the high frequency of updates (latest data received on 31 August, 2026), the channel maintains relevance and a high level of publication reach. Analytics show that the audience actively interacts with content, making it an important point of influence in the Telegram category.
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Bot API 10.3
🔁 Button Revolution
• Buttons can now be placed right inside any rich message – with multiple native styles and custom alignment.
• Out of the box, these buttons support callbacks, Mini Apps, Login URLs, copying text and more.
• Bots can now mark inline buttons as disabled.
👻 Ephemeral Messages
• Bots can now replace their messages with an ephemeral overlay, then edit it with rich content or newly uploaded media. This unlocks rich, personalized flows and responses running in a single message.
💪 Rich Messages
• Bots can now attach documents to rich messages and more easily embed media – including previously uploaded files.
• Rich Messages now support expandable quote blocks and compact tables.
🦀 AI Agents
• Bots now support a native Stop button for streamed drafts and can optionally preserve partial responses.
• And more, see the full changelog for details:
https://core.telegram.org/bots/api-changelog#august-24-2026
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Bot API 10.2
👻 Ephemeral Messages
• Bots can now send ephemeral group messages that are visible only to a specific user – ideal for welcome messages, whispers, summaries and more.
• Out of the box, ephemeral messages support most media types.
• Bot commands can now be marked as ephemeral, letting users discretely reach out to bots in groups.
• Bots can easily reply to ephemeral messages or delete them before they expire.
📝 Rich Messages
• Bots can now build outgoing rich messages directly from structured entity blocks, as an alternative to Markdown or HTML.
• Rich messages using Markdown or HTML can now explicitly attach embedded media like photos, videos, animations and more.
💬 Communities
• Introduced initial support for Communities — several groups, channels, and bots linked together around a shared topic or audience.
• Bots can already check which Community a chat belongs to and detect relevant service messages.
• And more, see the full changelog for details:
https://core.telegram.org/bots/api-changelog#july-14-2026
⚠ Warning: Starting July 20, 2026, Mini App methods will be restricted to the respective Mini App domain. Developers can opt out through the @BotFather Mini App. Read more here.
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Bot API 10.1
📝 Markup Revolution
This update introduces native text styling tools to enable richly formatted messages in any chat. Bots can now deliver highly structured content like business reports or media slideshows, while AI agents can seamlessly stream complex replies in real time.
Supported formats include:
• Multi-level headings, paragraphs and dividers.
• Lists and task lists – with support for custom numerals and ordering.
• Deeply nested inline formatting, including all common styles plus spoiler, code, subscript, superscript and more.
• Tables with alignment, captions, borders, striped styling and customizable cells.
• Media blocks for photos, videos and audio files, with captions and credits.
• Block and pull quotes, collapsible details blocks, anchors and in-document links.
• Full LaTeX support – including both inline and multi-line expressions.
• Maps with custom coordinates.
• Polished media collages, smooth slideshows.
• And more! Check out the list here or play around with our interactive demo.
🛡 Guard Bots
• Bots can now process join request queries as guard bots and approve, decline or queue them – or simply open a Mini App to show the user a captcha before deciding.
📊 Polls
• Poll option media now supports external links to any website.
• And more, see the full changelog for details:
https://core.telegram.org/bots/api-changelog#june-11-2026
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Bot API 10.0
Today's update reshapes how bots communicate on Telegram – unlocking cooperative multi-bot agentic flows, seamless integration in any chat, granular access controls and more.
🦀 Guest Mode and Agentic Flows
• Introduced guest mode, allowing bots to easily participate in any chat without joining it.
• Users can summon up to 3 guest bots per message – unlocking complex agentic flows in any chat. Guest bots receive only relevant messages and can inspect caller context or send replies.
• Bots can now message each other by username if they enable bot-to-bot communication.
• Account automation via Business Bots no longer requires a Premium subscription.
• Business Bots can now interact with other bots on behalf of the user.
🛡 Chat Management
• Admin bots can now remove individual message reactions, clear all recent reactions from a user or restrict them from issuing more.
• The list of chat admins can now optionally return bot administrators.
🚶 Live Photos
• Introduced support for live photos – images enhanced with short built-in motion and sound.
• Bots can now detect, download and send live photos to any chat, including as paid media.
📊 Polls
• Bots can now detect and attach media in both polls and individual poll options.
• Polls can now be limited to existing chat members or voters from specific countries.
✈ General
• Users can now set a granular access whitelist for their bot via @BotFather, while Manager Bots can set one via the API.
• Bots can now fetch recent messages from the channel pinned to a user's profile.
• And more, see the full changelog for details:
https://core.telegram.org/bots/api-changelog#may-8-2026
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🦀 AI Agents and Bot-to-Bot Communication
Historically, bot-to-bot interaction was restricted on Telegram to prevent infinite message loops.
Starting today, in specific contexts, Bot-to-Bot communication is allowed – unlocking complex agentic flows and AI-powered use cases.
Out of the box, this feature will work in groups and via business mode. To start using it, simply enable the Bot-to-Bot Communication Mode for your bot via @BotFather.
You can reference the full documentation here.
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Bot API 9.6
🦀 Managed Bots
• Manager bots are used to bootstrap and control other bots on behalf of their owners – easily orchestrating any number of AI agents, Business Accounts and custom tools.
• Out of the box, manager bots can prompt users to create a bot in one tap and easily fetch their token to start piloting them.
📊 Poll Revolution
• Polls now support multiple correct answers, re-issuing votes, hidden results and richly formatted descriptions.
• Poll options now have persistent ids and can be shuffled or dynamically added by users.
• Bots can now additionally reply to a specific poll option.
✈ General
• Mini Apps can now natively request users, chats and managed bots in one tap via prepared keybord buttons.
• Expanded support for date and time entities in checklists, quotes and gift texts.
• And more, see the full changelog for details:
https://core.telegram.org/bots/api-changelog#april-3-2026
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Bot API 9.5
🗓 Date and Time Formatting
• Introduced date and time formatting, allowing bots to show a formatted date and time to the user.
• Out-of-the-box support for relative times, localized weekdays and more.
👑 Custom Member Tags
• Introduced support for custom group member tags.
• Bots can now detect member tags, assign them, or allow admins to manage them.
📝 Message Streaming
• With today's update, every bot on Telegram can freely use the message streaming feature.
• And more, see the full changelog for details:
https://core.telegram.org/bots/api-changelog#march-1-2026
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Bot API 9.4
🎨 Custom Emoji and Buttons
• Bots can now use custom emoji in outgoing messages if their owner has Telegram Premium.
• Keyboard and inline buttons now support background colors and custom emoji.
💬 Private Chat Topics
• Bots can now create new topics in 1-on-1 chats.
• Via the BotFather Mini App, bot owners can also prevent users from creating or deleting topics.
🤖 Profile Info
• Bots can now set and remove their own profile pic.
• User profile audios are now visible to bots.
🎁 Gifts
• Unique gifts now include model rarity information.
• Out-of-the-box support for detecting gifts burned after crafting.
✈️ General
• Bots now handle service messages when a chat owner leaves or ownership changes.
• Video objects now include a list of available qualities.
• And more, see the full changelog for details:
https://core.telegram.org/bots/api-changelog#february-9-2026
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Bot API 9.3
💪 AI Revolution
This release comes with new tools and native interfaces to easily integrate modern LLMs and AI features.
• Introduced topics in 1-on-1 chats, letting users organize bot chats into easily accessible threads.
• Topics in private chats support all send and forward methods, including chat actions.
• Out of the box, bots can edit or delete private chat topics, manage pinned messages and more.
• Allowed bots to stream live responses as they're generated.
🎁 Gifts
• Improved gifts — with support for blockchain, multiple currencies, backgrounds and more.
• Bots can now list all gifts owned by users and chats with detailed filtering options.
• Added detailed information about the colors tied to a gift or applied to a chat.
👤 Profiles and Private Chats
• Business bots can now repost stories across accounts they manage.
• Copied and forwarded messages can now show effects in private chats.
• Bots can now see the rating of users who contact them.
✈ General
• Allowed bots to hide their main @username if they set an upgraded one via Fragment.
• Bots can now restrict channel admins from removing members.
• And more, see the full changelog for details:
https://core.telegram.org/bots/api-changelog#december-31-2025
Happy Holidays from the Telegram Team 🎆
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Bot API 9.2
📭 Direct Messages in Channels
• Introduced Channel Direct Messages Chats, allowing bots to send and detect Direct Messages in channels they manage.
• Bots can now identify direct messages chats and their parent channel.
• Bots now additionally receive topic metadata for direct messages.
⭐️ Suggested Posts
• Introduced full support for Suggested Posts in channels, unlocking granular automations via bots with sufficient rights.
• Bots can now detect, send, approve and decline suggested posts, with detailed price and date options.
• All relevant service messages are supported – including approvals, errors, declines, successful payments and refunds.
☑️ Checklists
• Bots can now reply directly to individual checklist tasks.
🎁 Gifts
• Gifts can now expose their publisher chat for attribution.
• And more, see the full changelog for details:
https://core.telegram.org/bots/api-changelog#august-15-2025
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🦾 Official @BotFather Mini App
@BotFather now hosts a native mini app that developers can use to create new bots or manage existing ones in a streamlined interface.
The previous flow remains unchanged – the mini app simply offers an alternative way to seamlessly access the same functionality.
The mini app is especially useful on mobile devices – allowing you to easily access your bot token, toggle settings or edit your bot in a few taps.
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⚠️ Notice to Developers
Due to a minor internal technical issue that occurred today from 18:10 to 19:35 UTC, certain bots may have been unable to reliably load the list of purchasable Telegram Gifts.
We have promptly resolved the issue and apologize for any inconvenience caused.
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Bot API 9.1
☑️ Checklists
• Introduced support for native checklists.
• Out of the box, business bots can create and edit checklists.
• Bots can now receive checklists and detect progress via service messages.
🎁 Gifts, Stars and More
• Improved gifts with details on their last sale and transfer cooldown.
• Bots can now easily check their Telegram Star balance.
• Mini Apps can now hide the on-screen keyboard.
• Unlocked more poll options, allowing up to 12.
• And more, see the full changelog for details:
https://core.telegram.org/bots/api-changelog#july-3-2025
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Bot API 9.0
Announcing the largest Bot API update of 2025 (so far 😈)
🏪 Telegram Business 2.0
• Bots can now fully customize the branding of Business Accounts – managing their name, username, bio and profile pictures.
• Introduced support for managing Paid Gifts 🎁, including conversions, transfers and upgrades.
• Bots can now check ⭐️ Telegram Star balances and transfer Stars from managed businesses.
• Bots can now easily mark Business messages as read or delete them.
• Added extensive support for managing stories on Business accounts – featuring photos, videos and interactive elements like links, locations, reactions, weather info and even Gifts.
• All stories posted by bots can also be edited or deleted.
• Introduced granular Business permissions, giving users even finer control over connected bots.
🗃️ Mini App Storage
• Mini Apps can now store data locally on the user's device.
• Sensitive tokens can be safely persisted in a specialized secure storage.
🎁 Telegram Gifts
• Introduced support for unique Gifts – with detailed model, symbol and backdrop info.
• Bots can also check which Gift types are accepted by users and chats.
⭐️ Paid Messages
• Bots can now track how many Stars users paid to send a message.
• This includes out-of-the-box support for paid messages in both groups and business accounts.
⭐️ Telegram Premium
• Bots can now gift a Telegram Premium subscription paid in Stars.
• And more, see the full changelog for details:
https://core.telegram.org/bots/api-changelog#april-11-2025
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Bot API 8.3
Video Improvements
• Introduced support for custom covers and start timestamps for videos.
• Out of the box, bots can specify a cover and start timestamp when sending, editing and forwarding videos — including in albums and paid media.
Gifts and Reactions
• Bots can now send gifts 🎁 to channels, in addition to regular users.
• Added support for transactions with chats.
• Bots can now add reactions to most service messages.
Similar Bots
• A list of similar bots will now appear in bot profiles, helping users discover other bots they may find interesting.
• And more, see the full changelog for details:
https://core.telegram.org/bots/api-changelog#february-12-2025
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Verification from Third Parties and Bot API 8.2
With today's update, official Bots and Mini Apps can verify ✅ users and chats on behalf of other organizations, assigning them a custom badge and a brief description.
This decentralized verification platform proactively prevents spam and misinformation – setting a new safety standard for social platforms 🛡
Additionally, Bot API 8.2 comes with out-of-the-box support for Collectible Gifts 🎁 – allowing Bots and Mini Apps to prepay 🎁 for Gift Upgrades.
Check out the full Bot API 8.2 changelog for more details.
Happy Holidays from the Telegram Team 🎆
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Affiliate Programs and Bot API 8.1
Starting today, Bot and Mini App developers can launch their own Affiliate Programs, and specify how much of their future ⭐️ Star revenue from referred users they are willing to share with those who invited them.
It only takes a few taps to set up an Affiliate Program — you can find out more in our dedicated guide.
With Bot API 8.1, all bots can also detect commissions and affiliate transactions out of the box, see the full changelog for details.
⚠️ Warning: As of December 1 2024, messages with video posted in big communities can be delayed by the server until the respective video is reencoded. Read more here.
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Bot API 8.0
Announcing the largest update in the history of Mini Apps 🎉
Full-Screen Mode
• Mini Apps can now use the entire screen – allowing them to host immersive games 🚀 with expanded interfaces.
Geolocation and Motion Tracking
• Mini Apps can now prompt users for Geolocation Access, allowing them to build virtually any location-based 🗺 service.
• Likewise, Mini Apps can request acceleration, orientation and rotation data from devices in real time.
Paid Subscriptions
• Subscriptions Plans powered by ⭐️ Telegram Stars are now available to all Bots and Mini Apps.
• Apps can accept recurring payments – or cancel them at any time.
Gifts for Stars
• Bots and Mini Apps can now use star proceeds to send Paid Gifts 🎁 to users with a custom caption.
Home Screen Shortcuts
• Mini apps can now be accessed via direct shortcuts added to the home screen of 📱 mobile devices.
Emoji Statuses
• Mini Apps can now let users pick a new emoji status 🚕 with a native dialog – or request access to later sync it with in-game badges, third-party APIs and more.
Sharing and Downloading Media
• Mini Apps can now let users share media directly to any chat – with granular selection parameters.
• Introduced a native popup to ⬇️download files from an App.
Customizable Loading Screen
• The loading screen of mini apps can now be customized 🖥 in @Botfather – adding your own logo and brand colors.
Hardware-specific Optimizations
• Mini Apps on Android now receive basic hardware info – enabling smoother usage and gaming 🏎 experiences for users.
• And so much more, see our blog for high-quality demos and the full changelog for details:
https://core.telegram.org/bots/api-changelog#november-17-2024
⚠️ Warning: Starting December 1, 2024 messages with video posted in big communities can be delayed by the server until the respective video is reencoded. Read more here.
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Bot API 7.11
• Bots can now participate in revenue sharing from Telegram Ads ⭐️ – unlocking a new way to help support their development.
• Introduced Paid Broadcasts ⭐️ – allowing bots to broadcast up to 1000 messages per second.
• Bots can now send and receive chat-specific hashtags that only show posts and stories from a specific chat when tapped.
• Added a new inline button to let users copy text in one tap.
• Bots can now add media to existing text messages.
• And more, see the full changelog for details:
https://core.telegram.org/bots/api-changelog#october-31-2024
⚠️ Warning: Starting December 1, 2024 messages with video posted in big communities can be delayed by the server until the respective video is reencoded. Read more here.
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Bot API 7.10
• Introduced support for Telegram Star Giveaways ⭐️.
• Bots now receive updates when users purchase paid media.
• Mini Apps can now display and control a secondary button at the bottom of their interface.
• The bottom bar color of Mini Apps can now be customized.
• And more, see the full changelog for details:
https://core.telegram.org/bots/api-changelog#september-6-2024
