Alternatives to Telegram Bot Raw

Pretty-prints and formats raw JSON you send it, useful for quickly reading a minified API response on the go. Free, no ads.

Forward any message, sticker or user to this bot to instantly see their numeric Telegram ID, username and other basic account info — a staple utility for bot development, whitelists and API calls. Free, no ads, over half a million monthly users.

Shows Telegram IDs: forward any message or add the bot to a group to learn user, chat, channel and sticker IDs needed for bot development and API calls. Free, no ads.

The official Telegram bot for creating and managing bots: registers a new bot in a minute, issues the API token, sets commands, description and avatar. Free, English interface, no third-party sign-up.

The official Telegram bot of UptimeRobot, the most widely used free uptime monitor: delivers instant down/up alerts plus SSL and domain-expiry warnings to a chat or group. Setup of monitors still happens on the website; the free plan covers 50 monitors checked every 5 minutes.

DropMail's official bot: unlimited free disposable addresses with unlimited mailbox lifetime if you keep the chat open, forwarding, attachments and an API for automation — one of the more feature-rich temp-mail bots.

Runs on-demand ping and HTTP checks for any host from a dozen locations worldwide, right inside the chat — no account needed. Free, English interface, useful for a quick 'is it just me' check on a site or server.

The Telegram front-end for SMS-Activate, one of the largest and longest-running virtual-number marketplaces: buy a number in dozens of countries and receive the SMS code for hundreds of services, without giving up your real phone number.

A long-running bot that subscribes to public GitHub repositories and posts new issues, pull requests, pushes and other events into a chat or channel, with the option to reply to issues from Telegram. Free, English interface, no repository access token required for public repos.

A "programmable" calculator bot that understands full Python-style expressions plus the math, random, datetime, json and re modules — for anyone who wants more than basic arithmetic in a Telegram chat.

Sends a domain name and get an instant WHOIS lookup: registrar, hosting provider and ASN, without opening a web-based whois tool. Free, no ads, no sign-up.

Tiger SMS in Telegram: virtual numbers for 200+ services across 260+ countries starting around 3 cents per activation, with a pay-only-if-it-arrives refund policy and even a shared free tier for less sensitive services.

GrizzlySMS's official bot: buy a virtual number for WhatsApp, Telegram, Google and hundreds of other services with transparent, published per-country pricing, right inside Telegram.

A niche but genuinely useful scanner for website owners — drop a .php or .js file and it checks against 500+ known malicious-code patterns, built by Revisium, a company known for cleaning hacked websites.

Generates random passwords on request, useful for quickly getting a strong password without opening a separate generator site. Free, bilingual English/Spanish bio, no ads.

Converts plain text into Telegram-flavoured Markdown formatting, with a feature aimed at preparing posts for channels. Handy for developers and channel owners who need Markdown-escaped text for the Bot API without doing it by hand.

Encodes and decodes Base64 text on request — a quick way to check what a Base64 string actually contains without opening a separate encoder site. Free, no ads.

Generates a random UUID on request, saving a trip to a UUID generator website when you need one for a test record, a config key or a temporary identifier. Free, no ads.