Scolocrizm

Scolocrizm is a Python framework for the Telegram Bot API. It provides asynchronous and synchronous clients, lossless models, file uploads, long polling, webhooks, routing, and a small FSM layer.

The bundled schema is based on Telegram Bot API 10.2. It includes 185 API methods and 387 documented object names. New optional fields are preserved instead of discarded.

Installation

pip install Scolocrizm

For local development:

pip install -e '.[dev]'

Quick start

import asyncio
from scolocrizm import Bot

async def main() -> None:
    bot = Bot('123456:BOT_TOKEN')
    me = await bot.get_me()
    print(me.username)

    await bot.send_message(chat_id=123456789, text='Hello')

asyncio.run(main())

Every Bot API method is available in snake_case:

await bot.send_rich_message(chat_id=123456789, rich_message={'markdown': '# Hello'})
await bot.edit_ephemeral_message_text(chat_id=123456789, ephemeral_message_id=1, text='Updated')
await bot.post_story(chat_id=123456789, content={'type': 'photo', 'photo': 'FILE_ID'})

Routing and polling

import asyncio
from scolocrizm import Bot, Command, Dispatcher, F

router = Dispatcher()

@router.message(Command('start') & F.text.startswith('/start'))
async def start(message, bot):
    await bot.send_message(chat_id=message.chat.id, text='Ready.')

async def main() -> None:
    bot = Bot('123456:BOT_TOKEN')
    await router.run_polling(bot, allowed_updates=['message'])

asyncio.run(main())

Use router.on() for any Update field:

@router.on('subscription')
async def subscription_changed(subscription):
    print(subscription.raw)

Files

Use InputFile for bytes, paths, or binary streams. File references returned by Telegram remain ordinary strings.

from scolocrizm import Bot, InputFile
from scolocrizm.types import InputMediaPhoto

bot = Bot('123456:BOT_TOKEN')

await bot.send_photo(
    chat_id=123456789,
    photo=InputFile('cover.png'),
    caption='Cover',
)

await bot.send_media_group(
    chat_id=123456789,
    media=[InputMediaPhoto(media=InputFile('one.jpg'))],
)

Nested InputFile instances are converted to multipart attachments automatically.

Webhooks

asgi_app() returns a dependency-free ASGI application. Set the same secret with set_webhook(secret_token=...) and in the application.

from scolocrizm import asgi_app

async def handle(update):
    print(update.raw)

app = asgi_app(handle, secret_token='long-random-secret', path='/telegram')

The webhook handler checks X-Telegram-Bot-Api-Secret-Token with a constant-time comparison.

Callback data

from scolocrizm import CallbackCodec

codec = CallbackCodec('separate-random-secret')
data = codec.pack('order', id=42, action='pay')
assert codec.unpack(data, namespace='order').data['id'] == 42

The codec signs payloads and enforces Telegram's 64-byte callback-data limit.

State

from scolocrizm import FSMMiddleware

router.middleware(FSMMiddleware())

@router.message(Command('name'))
async def ask_name(message, state, bot):
    await state.set_state('awaiting_name')
    await bot.send_message(chat_id=message.chat.id, text='What is your name?')

MemoryStorage is suitable for a single process. Multi-worker deployments should provide a shared implementation of the StateStorage protocol.

Sync client

from scolocrizm import SyncBot

bot = SyncBot('123456:BOT_TOKEN')
bot.send_message(chat_id=123456789, text='Sent from a script')

SyncBot cannot run inside an active event loop. Use Bot in asynchronous applications.

Compatibility

The client preserves unknown response fields and accepts direct calls to methods that may be added after a package release:

result = await bot.call('futureMethod', chat_id=123456789)
print(result.raw)

Scolocrizm retries rate-limited requests after Telegram's retry_after delay. Calls that could create a duplicate message are not retried after an ambiguous transport error unless retry_unsafe=True is explicitly requested.

Development

PYTHONPATH=src pytest -q
ruff check src tests tools
python tools/audit_bot_api.py
python tools/generate_manifest.py
python -m build

The API audit and release verification are documented in reports/BOT_API_COVERAGE_REPORT.md.

License

MIT. Scolocrizm is an independent project and is not affiliated with Telegram.