July 10, 2023, 5:37 p.m. | xamhans

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This tutorial explains step-by-step how to build a custom Telegram chatbot that can interact with OpenAI ChatGPT. The tutorial is written in Python and uses the python-telegram-bot and openai packages.





1) Create Telegram Chatbot


Open your IDE and create a file named telegram-bot.py


We are going to use this https://github.com/python-telegram-bot/python-telegram-bot package that will help us to create the telegram bot. Make sure to install it with


pip3 install python-telegram-bot


After installing, paste in this code to your telegram-bot.py file:



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