This book is a practical guide to creating a bot for Telegram using the Python programming language. It describes the basic steps for creating a bot, such as registering and obtaining a token, installing and configuring the necessary libraries, creating bot functions and launching it. Additional features that can be added to the bot are also considered, such as sending photos and videos, using the keyboard to quickly respond to messages, integration with other services, and machine learning to recognize messages. This book is intended for novice developers who want to create their first bot for Telegram and have basic knowledge of Python programming. Creating a bot in Telegram is quite simple and can be carried out even by those who have no programming experience.