Change telegram bot name on the fly

Question

I have a telegram bot that messages on a group. I want the telegram bot to change its “name” from time to time - just like a user can. Is this possible? This means that when I see a message from the bot it can say “ABCbot”, but later it can say “DEFbot”. Let me know!

Chantalchantalle

Answer 1

Sorry but you can't change your telegram via bot but you can change it via @BotFather as you can see in this screenshot:

Go to @BotFather and send this command

/mybots

Then it will show list of your bots. Click on the bot you want change it's name and then click on Edit Name

Incorruption

Yes, I was hoping there would be an api-based way to do it. Strange that a bot can’t change its own name. – Chantalchantalle

@CarlosF You gotta need to write a bot for that :) – Homeric

@j4hangir. If the API allowed it, you could, but it doesn't, so you can't..... – Suasion

@Suasion https://mcmap.net/q/1653507/-change-telegram-bot-name-on-the-fly – Homeric

I don't understand how you can't has been accepted as an answer. It obviously can be done on-the-fly as I wrote here – Homeric

It's simple. because he asked about Telegram Bot API not Telegram Client API. I wonder how you couldn't understand difference between these two concept. Pure Python 3 MTProto API Telegram client library, for bots too! – Incorruption

Answer 2

Use Telethon to do that:

await tc.send_message('@botfather', '/setname')
await tc.send_message('@botfather', bot)
await tc.send_message('@botfather', name)

tc is the instance of TelegramClient class.

Homeric