Web bots in Telegram

In the strings of the Beta version of Telegram for macOS, a mention of web bots appeared.

Judging by the available information, such bots support WebView buttons, which will allow you to interact with services in a new way: the bot and its buttons will be displayed directly in the menu by pressing a paperclip.

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Sneak Peek at Telegram Web Bots
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Telegram started to test web bots, which are similar to inline bots, but still have some key differences:

— Pressing a bot button will open a third-party website inside Telegram.
— The website receives some key colors of your theme so it can adapt to look like a part of the app.
— The web bot can be pinned to the Attachments menu. When you select it from there, Telegram passes your current chat info to the website.
— Avatars are passed into the website as hotlinks, so they can be easily injected.
— Website can pass up to 4096 bytes of data to the bot, which is a record: inline buttons can carry up to 64 bytes of payload.
— Web bots can send messages of any attachment type available to inline bots on behalf of the user with a "via @bot" sign.
— Developers will have to develop the communication API between the bot and the website on their own.

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