Documentation

BotPresto is an essential toolset for your new and existing Telegram bots. It works as a transparent proxy for your bots that enhances their functionality with the most common features.

Features

• Analytics - reporting your bot’s user activity to Mixpanel for usage analytics
• Simple user chat - chat with users on behalf of your bot
• Maintenance mode - let your users know that the server that powers your bot is in maintenance mode
• Error recovery - inform your users when your server isn’t reachable or is crashing
• Alerting - an alert system for your bots, right in Telegram
• Drip marketing platform (internal alfa-testing, coming soon)

Getting started

Connecting your bot to BotPresto will take about a minute. Start the BotPresto bot and follow its instructions.

How it works

BotPresto acts as a low-latency, transparent proxy that forwards Telegram calls to your endpoint without alteration, extracts analytics data, and provides an additional reliability layer.

BotPresto never sends anything to your end users besides what’s described in this documentation. 2 examples of what BotPresto may send on behalf of your bots are service outage notifications and maintenance mode messages.

Read here about what exactly happens when you add your bot to BotPresto and why it is safe.

Troubleshooting

Some tips on how to troubleshooting your bot.

Limitations

BotPresto best supports bots built around webhooks, and cannot provide all its features for bots that use polling. Read more here.