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Explore the world of Telegram bots

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Explore the world of Telegram bots

- [Instructor] Example is a great teacher, and fortunately for us, there are lots of examples of Telegram bots out there. Many of the most popular bots are rather advanced, and so are kind of intimidating to a beginning bot developer, so let's start simple and build our way up. We'll start with one you've seen already, Json Dump Bot. It's the simplest kind of bot. It takes whatever you send, and spits the full object right back at you. As with all bots, the user first has to give it permission to interact by sending the start command. So first I'm going to refine that bot by going up to the search bar right here in the upper left hand corner, and typing in Json Dump Bot. I click it, and then click restart since I had it open before. It saw the /start, and there's the object, right back at us. Let's move up a level and look at one called remindmebot_bot. I go back up to search, and type that in. I find it, click it…

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