Full Bot API

All Bot API methods are exposed through the CLI. Use the complete native interface alongside convenient bot commands for messages, files and chat administration. Telegram covers all 185 methods in the pinned Bot API 10.3 schema; MAX covers all 33 operations in its official schema.

Use Telegram CLI 0.25.0 or later and MAX CLI 0.25.0 or later. See installation.

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tg sales bot api --help
max sales bot api --help
tg sales bot api get-me --json
max sales bot api get-my-info --json

The first word is your bot profile. Each method's --help lists its native fields. Method names and parameters follow the provider's API, so they can differ between Telegram and MAX.

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Parameters are flags or JSON through --body, --body-file or stdin. The provider's native timeout is --poll-timeout; --timeout limits the whole command. Results retain the provider's native structure, and integers outside JavaScript's safe range are strings.

Some methods need specific bot rights or platform capabilities. Writes use the profile's guard, recipient checks and journal. Keep credentials out of arguments: use stdin or a protected JSON file. Credential-returning methods require --store-token <profile> and store the token only in the OS keyring, printing a receipt.

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The complete native API is a CLI interface. MCP provides separate tools for common tasks; it does not expose one tool per native API method. An agent with terminal access can use tg bot api or max bot api for operations beyond those tools.

Details: Telegram bot guide, MAX bot guide, Telegram Bot API, MAX Bot API.