Founder of a listed tool
Nikolai Durov
Co-founder, Telegram, named behind the Telegram Bot API listing on Anchor Terminal.
What Nikolai builds
Telegram Bot API E · Messaging APIs
The Telegram Bot API is Telegram's HTTP interface for bot accounts. A bot sends and edits messages, media and polls, manages chats and takes payments, and receives user messages by long polling or webhook, with a token issued by @BotFather.
Co-founder, Telegram, researched 28 October 2026 · the people behind it
Works with
- Aliaksei Levin Telegram Bot API server contributor/maintainer (GitHub: levlam)
- Pavel Durov Founder and CEO, Telegram
Questions
Who is Nikolai Durov?
Nikolai Durov is a programmer and mathematician who co-founded VK and later Telegram with his brother Pavel. Telegram's FAQ credits him with the technology, including the custom open data protocol he developed for the app.
What does Telegram Messenger Inc. make?
Anchor Terminal lists Telegram Bot API from Telegram Messenger Inc.. The Telegram Bot API is Telegram's HTTP interface for bot accounts. A bot sends and edits messages, media and polls, manages chats and takes payments, and receives user messages by long polling or webhook, with a token issued by @BotFather.
How are Nikolai's tools graded?
Telegram Bot API is graded E, 43 out of 100, on Anchor Terminal's benchmark, which scores every listing against the same checklist.
Sources (9)
- https://github.com/tdlib/telegram-bot-api
- https://github.com/levlam
- https://github.com/tdlib/telegram-bot-api/commit/e3e9dd8e5b3d7ab8537cd5a10dc31d5ffa8f82d1
- https://telegram.org/faq
- https://www.linkedin.com/company/telegram-messenger
- https://core.telegram.org/bots/faq
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telegram_(software)
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pavel_Durov
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikolai_Durov
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