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Telegram has launched a platform for creating “smart” bots

The developers of Telegram messenger has announced a platform for the creation of buddy-bots that can interact with external services and applications. The service starts, timed to coincide with release of updated iPhone apps under the index of 3.0.

Pavel Durov has provided developers with tools to create bots that can connect, for example, the API to search for images on Bing, or create new services inside the app. For example, created during beta testing platform @ImageBot generates the appropriate query image, and @PollBot can create polls in chat rooms, where he added.

Currently available in the following bots:

  • @ImageBot – shows the image request;
  • @TriviaBot allows you to play the quiz alone or in chat;
  • @PollBot – creates polls in groups;
  • @RateStickerBot – looking and allows you to evaluate the stickers for Telegram;
  • @AlertBot – bot for alerts;
  • @HotOrBot service to search for friends based on the app Tinder;
  • @GithubBot – bot to check for updates on the GitHub.

Users can chat with bots using certain commands, but in most cases they do not need. Telegram allows you to create bots for special keyboard with a prepared message.

To create your own bot can any third-party developer, notes Siliconrus. You need to generate a key using the account @BotFather and use a special API based on the https Protocol to control the bot.

The idea of integration bots in instant messaging is not new. It was implemented in the Nimbuzz app, as well as in QIP and Miranda. With their help it was possible to find out the score in football matches, weather forecast, horoscopes.

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First full support bots and special keyboards for iPhone users received the update app Telegram. This version adds support for the Apple Watch.

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