Telegram Bot Raw

When you write a Telegram bot, the documentation lists every field, but it is often faster to look at a real update. Telegram Bot Raw does exactly that: forward it a message from a chat or channel, or send it a photo, a sticker, a poll or a location, and it answers with the JSON representation of what it received, the way a bot sees it. The first reply after /start already shows your own user and chat IDs.

That makes it a quick reference for edge cases that are easy to get wrong from memory: what a forwarded channel post carries, how a poll is structured, which fields a service message has. Catalogs such as Telegram Directory describe it the same way, and its bio credits @SeanChannel, the channel of Taiwanese developer and teacher Sean Wei.

There is little more to it, and that is the point. The bot has no settings and no paid features. It publishes no source code or privacy policy, so avoid forwarding anything sensitive: everything you send is processed on the author's server. Telegram shows about 26,500 monthly users.