telegram-api | Telegram Api library for java | REST library

You can use the reply_to_message_id argument in the send_message function:

What you need is Telegram's latest schema which you can always get from this link.

It is taken from the official Telegram Desktop repo on GitHub

The current Layer is 66

You can build your own converter to transform this file into a Telegram parser library in your preferred programming language.

Whenever the Layer changes, you simply re-run your converter and you have a TL-Parser for the latest version.

Also, you need to place the new and old TL schema side by side in a text editor that can show you the differences between the two schema (I use a file-difference plugin for Notepad++)

This difference shows you clearly what you need to change/include in your Telegram application to handle the changes in the new Layer.

EDIT

The new layer with voice calls is Layer 66: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/telegramdesktop/tdesktop/dev/Telegram/Resources/scheme.tl

short answer: there's a jave lib you can use (https://github.com/rubenlagus/TelegramApi)

Steps are very clear and straightforward(https://core.telegram.org/api#getting-started):

1- Create yr application(register yrself for API usage): API Key, Hash, configuration API will be generated for you

2- learn how to call APIs if you dont know there's a great course at codecademy (https://www.codecademy.com/apis) you should know http concepts like get, post

3- authenticate yrself by auth_key_id and then using auth.sendCode method by passing auth_key_id, hash, phone_registered . steps are in https://core.telegram.org/api/auth

3- call telegram endpoints(https://core.telegram.org/methods). you can use some online tools to ease yr learning curve like https://www.hurl.it/

i have to admit since there's no code samples, it's not easy to use this API but steps are easy and it takes only some time.

hope it helps

What you want to achieve is possible.

Let me give you a step by step walkthrough of how to do this. The directions below will work for any language of your choice.

1. It is easy to gain access to all messages that are directed to your Telegram account. You would first need to build a Telegram client. To get started on this check out these two SO Posts for the background you need (but not in PHP)

2. Successfully completing above step gets you Authorised on the Telegram Network, next step is to start listening for messages sent to your telegram account.

3. By this point you have the basic code setup to receive messages ALL types of telegram messages sent to your account. What you need now is to convert the received messages to JSON and possibly store them to any database of your choice. This step should be easy for you to do.

The steps 1 & 2 above do most of the heavy lifting for you by converting the bytes received from Telegram into a format that is accessible to you in your chosen programing language, you simply need to convert to JSON at this point.

Hope this helps.