Telethon
Full-featured Telegram client library for Python enabling bot and account automation.
Used in agent projects
26
0.2% of 12,697 public repos built with AI coding agents
Rank in sdks for hosted services
#32 of 44
by use in those projects
Downloads
803K
PyPI, last 7 days, telethon
GitHub stars
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no public repo found
How Telethon is used
Telethon is a dependency in 26 of the 12,697 public GitHub projects set up for AI coding agents that we scanned (0.2%), #32 of 44 in sdks for hosted services. The most used alternative there is Supabase JS. Projects that use it most often also use solders (80.8%), python-dotenv (73.1%), aiohttp (65.4%).
Often used with Telethon
| solders | 80.8% of Telethon projects · 24.2× more than average |
|---|---|
| python-dotenv | 73.1% of Telethon projects · 11.2× more than average |
| aiohttp | 65.4% of Telethon projects · 28.1× more than average |
| Requests | 57.7% of Telethon projects · 10.9× more than average |
| solana-py | 53.8% of Telethon projects · 20.0× more than average |
| base58 | 50.0% of Telethon projects · 26.2× more than average |
| Uvicorn | 42.3% of Telethon projects · 9.9× more than average |
| Pydantic | 42.3% of Telethon projects · 8.3× more than average |
Install
| Package | pip install telethon |
|---|---|
| Main stacks | Python (26) |
| Example projects | sidetrip-ai/ici-core, simons-freedom/X-monitor, XargonWan/Synthetic_Heart, geniusvisiontech-inc/solana-sniper, Desamod/PawsBot |
Alternatives to Telethon
| Tool | Used in agent projects | Downloads / wk | GitHub stars | License |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Supabase JS npm Isomorphic JavaScript SDK for Supabase backend-as-a-service. |
927 (7.3%) | 30.5M | 4,574 | MIT |
| Supabase SSR npm Supabase client library optimized for server-side rendering frameworks. |
332 (2.6%) | 8.1M | 210 | MIT |
| Resend npm Node.js SDK for Resend email API to send transactional emails. |
235 (1.9%) | 12.9M | 964 | MIT |
| Firebase npm Google's platform SDK for realtime database, auth, hosting and serverless functions. |
224 (1.8%) | 10.6M | 5,149 | Apache-2.0 |
| AWS SDK for JavaScript (S3) npm Official AWS SDK for uploading, downloading and managing S3 objects. |
200 (1.6%) | 49.4M | 3,673 | Apache-2.0 |
| Stripe npm Official SDK for integrating Stripe payments and billing into applications. |
197 (1.6%) | 23.5M | 4,523 | MIT |
| EmailJS npm Official browser SDK for sending emails directly from client-side JavaScript without a backend. |
189 (1.5%) | 122K | 143 | BSD-3-Clause |
| Supabase CLI npm Command-line tool for managing Supabase projects and databases locally. |
131 (1.0%) | 5.6M | 2,430 | MIT |