No known security advisories.
The current version has no OSV.dev malware reports and no critical or high-severity vulnerabilities.
python-telegram-bot has 43.8M monthly downloads and 29K GitHub stars. Version 22.8 supports Python 3.10+, first published in 2015.
It is actively maintained under a copyleft license, last released in Jun 2026.
It is built on top of httpcore and httpx. It is used by 655 tracked packages, including apache-airflow-providers-telegram, freqtrade and tm-ai.
GitHub topics include telegram, bot and chatbot.
Package Insights
Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
100
Popularity
92
Adoption
70
Community
85
Provenance
100
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
1 days ago
Monthly downloads
43,791,156
•
Active
Activity within 30 days
Stable
Activity within 31-180 days
Minimal
Activity within 181-365 days, or no activity data
At Risk
No activity for > 365 days, but > 10,000 monthly downloads
Archived
Repository flagged as archived on GitHub
How the popularity category was determined
Monthly downloads
43,791,156
Stars
29,287
Stars per 1k downloads
0.67
•
Industry Standard
> 10,000,000 monthly downloads
Hidden Gem
< 0.5 stars per 1k downloads and > 100,000 monthly downloads
Community Favorite
> 5 stars per 1k downloads
Rising Star
Balanced ratio of stars to downloads
Unknown
Fewer than 1,000 monthly downloads, or no star data
How download momentum is calculated
Week daily avg
1,450,737
Month daily avg
1,459,705
Momentum
-0.6%
((week_daily_avg - month_daily_avg) / month_daily_avg) * 100Python version support tiers
requires_python
>=3.10
Cutting Edge
Minimum supported version is 3.12 or newer
•
Modern
Minimum supported version is 3.9, 3.10, or 3.11
Legacy
Supports 3.8 or older (or Python 2)
Unknown
No requires_python specified or unparseable
License categories
License
LGPL-3.0-only
Permissive
MIT, Apache, BSD, ISC, Unlicense, CC0, etc.
•
Copyleft
GPL, LGPL, AGPL, MPL, EPL, etc.
Proprietary
Commercial, all rights reserved, custom EULAs
Unknown
No license specified, or none of the above match
How the release cadence was determined
Last release
24 days ago
Total releases
156
Releases/year
14.2
•
Rapid
Last release within 365 days and > 12 releases/year
Regular
Last release within 365 days
Slow
Last release 366-730 days ago
Stalled
Last release > 730 days ago, or no releases
Unknown
No usable release date available
How contributor risk was determined
Contributors
239
Monthly downloads
43,791,156
High Load
≤ 2 contributors and ≥ 50,000 monthly downloads
Moderate Load
< 10 contributors and ≥ 500,000 monthly downloads
Low Load
< 25 contributors and ≥ 5,000,000 monthly downloads, or sole maintainer with ≥ 10,000 monthly downloads
•
Balanced
Enough contributors for the package's popularity
Unknown
No contributor data available
Engagement
95
Issue Burden
0.8
per 1k stars
Discussions
12.7
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
3.9%
contrib / forks
Stale Release
No
PR Velocity
Quiet
Weekly Downloads
GitHub Stars
Not all downloads include detailed metadata. Breakdowns reflect the subset that does.
Downloads by OS
Linux
1.4M
Windows
18.3K
macOS
10.2K
Python Versions
3.11
24.2%
333.1K
3.12
21.4%
295.5K
3.10
20.9%
288.1K
3.13
17.7%
244.4K
3.14
15.8%
217.7K
Top Countries
1.
US
1.3M
US
2.
DE
10.9K
DE
3.
IN
6.3K
IN
4.
RU
4.6K
RU
5.
IE
3.8K
IE
6.
NL
3.7K
NL
7.
SG
3.7K
SG
8.
FR
2.7K
FR
9.
JP
2.7K
JP
10.
BR
2.0K
BR
Dependencies
2
19 optional dependencies
- aiolimiter[all]
- aiolimiter[rate-limiter]
- aiolimiter[ext]
- apscheduler[job-queue]
- apscheduler[all]
- apscheduler[ext]
- cachetools[all]
- cachetools[callback-data]
- cachetools[ext]
- cffi[passport]
- cffi[all]
- cryptography[passport]
- cryptography[all]
- httpx[http2]
- httpx[socks]
- httpx[all]
- tornado[webhooks]
- tornado[all]
- tornado[ext]
Used By
655
- apache-airflow-providers-telegram
- freqtrade
- tm-ai
- qwenpaw
- pkdevtools
- astrbot
- openjarvis
- knockknock
- nanobot-ai
- electricore
- ite-agent
- tellmgrambot
- kyber-chat
- soothe-daemon
- orcheo
- xingzierai
- yanzhiti
- rasa-core
- grabberlib2
- shibaclaw
- telegram-send
- octobot
- ccgram
- boatbuddy
- copaw
- pkbrokers
- langbot
- cade-cli
- halib
- chibi-bot
- d4rktg
- synapse-orch-ai
- openakita
- sicily
- chaterjee
- langswarm
- modulitiz-micro
- kogniterm
- openharness-ai
- bobrtools
- superpos-agent-core
- flowly-ai
- openlama
- psi-agent
- bbstrader
- alfard
- lgblkb-tools
- nekro-agent
- chgksuite
- aipager
Package Information
License
LGPL-3.0-only
First Release
July 8, 2015
Last Release
3 weeks ago
Last Commit
Yesterday
Latest Version
22.8
Total Releases
156
Contributors
239
Open PRs
9
Archived
No
Python Versions
3
3.10
3.11
3.12
3.13
3.14
3.15
Wheels
py2
py3
Tracking Since
January 6, 2026
Data Updated
July 5, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh