Pyrogram
Telegram MTProto API Framework for Python
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## Pyrogram > Elegant, modern and asynchronous Telegram MTProto API framework in Python for users and bots ``` python from pyrogram import Client, filters app = Client("my_account") @app.on_message(filters.private) async def hello(client, message): await message.reply("Hello from Pyrogram!") app.run() ``` **Pyrogram** is a modern, elegant and asynchronous [MTProto API](https://docs.pyrogram.org/topics/mtproto-vs-botapi) framework. It enables you to easily interact with the main Telegram API through a user account (custom client) or a bot identity (bot API alternative) using Python. ### Support If you'd like to support Pyrogram, you can consider: - [Become a GitHub sponsor](https://github.com/sponsors/delivrance). - [Become a LiberaPay patron](https://liberapay.com/delivrance). - [Become an OpenCollective backer](https://opencollective.com/pyrogram). ### Key Features - **Ready**: Install Pyrogram with pip and start building your applications right away. - **Easy**: Makes the Telegram API simple and intuitive, while still allowing advanced usages. - **Elegant**: Low-level details are abstracted and re-presented in a more convenient way. - **Fast**: Boosted up by [TgCrypto](https://github.com/pyrogram/tgcrypto), a high-performance cryptography library written in C. - **Type-hinted**: Types and methods are all type-hinted, enabling excellent editor support. - **Async**: Fully asynchronous (also usable synchronously if wanted, for convenience). - **Powerful**: Full access to Telegram's API to execute any official client action and more. ### Installing ``` bash pip3 install pyrogram ``` ### Resources - Check out the docs at https://docs.pyrogram.org to learn more about Pyrogram, get started right away and discover more in-depth material for building your client applications. - Join the official channel at https://t.me/pyrogram and stay tuned for news, updates and announcements.