Unofficial Telegram (https://telegram.org) client library implemented in C#.
It's a perfect fit for any developer who would like to send data directly to Telegram users or write own custom Telegram client.
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- How do I add this to my project?
- Starter Guide
- Available Methods
- Contributors
- FAQ
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- License
Install via NuGet
> Install-Package TgSharp
or build from source
- Clone TgSharp from GitHub
- Compile source with VS2015 or MonoDevelop
- Add reference to
TgSharp.Core.dll
to your awesome project.
Telegram API isn't that easy to start. You need to do some configuration first.
- Create a developer account in Telegram.
- Goto API development tools and copy API_ID and API_HASH from your account. You'll need it later.
To start work, create an instance of TelegramClient and establish connection:
var client = new TelegramClient(apiId, apiHash);
await client.ConnectAsync();
Now you can work with Telegram API, but ->
Only a small portion of the API methods are available to unauthorized users. (full description)
For authentication you need to run following code:
var hash = await client.SendCodeRequestAsync("<user_number>");
var code = "<code_from_telegram>"; // you can change code in debugger
var user = await client.MakeAuthAsync("<user_number>", hash, code);
You can see the full code at AuthUser test
When the user is authenticated, TgSharp creates special file called session.dat. In this file TgSharp stores all information needed for the user's session. So you need to authenticate user every time the session.dat file is corrupted or removed.
You can call any method on authenticated users. For example, let's send message to a friend by his phone number:
//get available contacts
var result = await client.GetContactsAsync();
//find recipient in contacts
var user = result.Users
.OfType<TLUser>()
.FirstOrDefault(x => x.Phone == "<recipient_phone>");
//send message
await client.SendMessageAsync(new TLInputPeerUser() { UserId = user.Id }, "OUR_MESSAGE");
You can see the full code at SendMessage test
To send a message to a channel you could use the following code:
//get user dialogs
var dialogs = (TLDialogsSlice) await client.GetUserDialogsAsync();
//find channel by title
var chat = dialogs.Chats
.OfType<TLChannel>()
.FirstOrDefault(c => c.Title == "<channel_title>");
//send message
await client.SendMessageAsync(new TLInputPeerChannel() { ChannelId = chat.Id, AccessHash = chat.AccessHash.Value }, "OUR_MESSAGE");
You can see the full code at SendMessageToChannel test
Telegram separate files to two categories -> big file and small file. File is Big if its size more than 10 Mb. TgSharp tries to hide this complexity from you, thats why we provide one method to upload files UploadFile.
var fileResult = await client.UploadFile("cat.jpg", new StreamReader("data/cat.jpg"));
TgSharp provides two wrappers for sending photo and document:
await client.SendUploadedPhoto(new TLInputPeerUser() { UserId = user.Id }, fileResult, "kitty");
await client.SendUploadedDocument(new TLInputPeerUser() { UserId = user.Id },
fileResult,
"application/zip", //mime-type
//document attributes, such as file name
new TLVector<TLAbsDocumentAttribute>());
You can see the Full code at SendPhotoToContactTest and SendBigFileToContactTest
To download a file you should call the GetFile method:
await client.GetFile(new TLInputDocumentFileLocation()
{
AccessHash = document.AccessHash,
Id = document.Id,
FileReference = document.FileReference,
ThumbSize = "250x250"
},
//size of fileChunk you want to retrieve
document.Size);
You can see the Full code at DownloadFileFromContactTest
For your convenience TgSharp have wrappers for several Telegram API methods. You could add your own, see details below.
- SendCodeRequestAsync
- MakeAuthAsync
- GetContactsAsync
- SendMessageAsync
- SendTypingAsync
- GetUserDialogsAsync
- SendUploadedPhoto
- SendUploadedDocument
- GetFile
- UploadFile
- SendPingAsync
- GetHistoryAsync
What if you can't find needed method at the list?
Don't panic. You can call any method with help of SendRequestAsync
function. For example, send user typing method:
//Create request
var req = new TLRequestSetTyping()
{
Action = new TLSendMessageTypingAction(),
Peer = new TLInputPeerUser() { UserId = user.Id }
};
//run request, and deserialize response to Boolean
return await client.SendRequestAsync<Boolean>(req);
Where can you find a list of requests and its parameters?
The only way is Telegram API docs. Yes, it's no longer outdated. Latest scheme in JSON format you can find here
- Add Updates handling via events (WIP PR: sochix#892 )
- GithubActions CI job for running tests
- Upgrade to .NETStandard 2.0.
Layer 108. Thanks to Afshin Arani for his TLGenerator
TgSharp library should automatically handle these errors. If you see such errors, please open a new Github issue with the details (include a stacktrace, etc.).
I get an exception: System.IO.EndOfStreamException: Unable to read beyond the end of the stream. All test methos except that AuthenticationWorks and TestConnection return same error. I did every thing including setting api id and hash, and setting server address.-
You should create a Telegram session. See configuration guide
After you get this, you cannot use Telegram's API for a while. You can know the time to wait by accessing the FloodException::TimeToWait property.
If this happens too often and/or the TimeToWait value is too long, there may be something odd going on. First and foremost, are you using TgSharp to manage more than one telegram account from the same host? If yes, it's likely that you're hitting Telegram restrictions. We recommend that you use TgSharp in a standalone-device app (so that each instance of your program only uses one telegram account), so for example a mobile app, not a web app.
If, on the other hand, you're completely sure that you found a bug in TgSharp about this, please open a Github issue.
TgSharp only covers basic functionality of the Telegram protocol, you can be a contributor or a sponsor to speed-up developemnt of any more new features.
If you just have questions about how to use TgSharp, use our Telegram channel (https://t.me/joinchat/AgtDiBEqG1i-qPqttNFLbA) first. Don't create a github issue until you have confirmed with the maintainer and/or contributors if what you're experiencing is really a bug. When this has been confirmed, then:
Attach following information:
- Steps to reproduce the issue (including your code)
- Expected outcome.
- Current outcome: if it's a crash, attach the full exception details (to get this, just paste what you get from
ex.ToString()
, which gives you exception type, exception message, stacktrace, and inner exceptions recursively).
Without information listed above your issue will be closed.
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If you have troubles while using TgSharp, we may be able to help you; access our telegram channel first, and ask for "Paid support".
- knocte - Maintainer
- Afshin Arani - Main contributor
- CheshireCaat - Occasional contributor
- sochix - Original author
Please, provide link to the original authors when using library
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Copyright (c) 2015 Ilya Pirozhenko (sochix)
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