How to build a Telegram bot that only answers you, with long polling in Python

A Telegram bot is a convenient remote control for a script or an AI agent on your own machine. It works on every phone, needs no app of your own, and needs no public server. The catch is that a bot is public. Anyone can find its username and message it, and the token only proves that your script is the bot; it says nothing about who is writing.... Weiterlesen: How to build a Telegram bot that only answers you, with long polling …