In this tutorial, we will be creating a Telegram bot that gives you an avatar image from Adorable Avatars. Our example will involve building a bot using Flask and deploying it on a free Heroku server.

If you want to learn how to create a simple Telegram bot, without having any coding knowledge, then use BotFather. We show you how!

For starters, Telegram is poised to come out with Apple Watch support and, as I hinted, a brand new Bot platform (this will be in Telegram 3.0 for iOS). If you want you can also get a preview here.