python-max-bot 0.4.1

Async Python client for the Max messenger Bot API

python-max-bot

Async Python client for the Max messenger Bot API.

A thin, stable, Pydantic-modeled wrapper. No bot framework, no FSM, no middleware — just the typed API surface for messaging, uploads, updates, webhooks, and chat introspection.

Install

pip install python-max-bot

Quickstart

import asyncio
from max_bot_api import MaxClient

async def main():
    async with MaxClient(token="YOUR_BOT_TOKEN") as client:
        # Send a plain message
        await client.send_message(chat_id=42, text="Hello, Max!")

        # Send a message with an image
        with open("photo.jpg", "rb") as f:
            img = await client.upload_image(f.read(), filename="photo.jpg")
        await client.send_message(
            chat_id=42,
            text="<b>Look at this</b>",
            format="html",
            attachments=[img],
        )

asyncio.run(main())

Features

Feature	Status
Send / edit / delete messages	✅
Long-poll updates (get_updates)	✅
Image / video / audio / file uploads	✅
Inline keyboards	✅
Chat metadata (get_chat)	✅
HTML and Markdown formatting	✅
Typed exceptions per HTTP status	✅
Auto-retry / backoff	✅
Bot introspection (get_me, members, admins)	✅
Webhook subscription endpoints	✅
Action indicators (typing, sending photo, …)	✅
Bot framework (handlers, FSM)	❌ out of scope

Polling for updates

Long-poll the API and walk the marker cursor:

import asyncio
from max_bot_api import MaxClient

async def main():
    async with MaxClient(token="YOUR_BOT_TOKEN") as client:
        marker: int | None = None
        while True:
            page = await client.get_updates(marker=marker, timeout=30)
            for update in page.updates:
                # `update` is a discriminated-union Pydantic model — check
                # `update.update_type` or use isinstance on the subtypes.
                print(update)
            marker = page.marker

asyncio.run(main())

get_updates(timeout=30) blocks server-side for up to 30 seconds waiting for new events; pass the returned marker back on the next call to advance the cursor. While a webhook subscription is active, this method is disabled — pick one transport, not both.

Introspection

from max_bot_api import MaxClient

async with MaxClient(token) as client:
    # Who am I?
    me = await client.get_me()
    print(me.user_id, me.username, me.first_name)

    # Walk a paginated member list
    page = await client.get_chat_members(chat_id=42, count=50)
    while True:
        for member in page.members:
            print(member.user_id, member.first_name)
        if page.marker is None:
            break
        page = await client.get_chat_members(chat_id=42, marker=page.marker, count=50)

    # Filter mode — fetch only specific users (overrides marker/count server-side)
    page = await client.get_chat_members(chat_id=42, user_ids=[100, 200])

    # Admins (bot must itself be an admin in the chat)
    admins = await client.get_chat_admins(chat_id=42)
    for admin in admins.members:
        print(admin.user_id, admin.permissions)

    # "Am I admin here?" preflight before doing admin-only operations
    self_membership = await client.get_my_chat_membership(42)
    if self_membership.is_admin:
        ...

Action indicators

Send a typing or sending-photo indicator while you do work:

from max_bot_api import MaxClient, ChatAction

async with MaxClient(token) as client:
    await client.send_action(42, ChatAction.TYPING_ON)
    reply = await compute_expensive_reply(...)
    await client.send_message(chat_id=42, text=reply)

Available actions: TYPING_ON, SENDING_PHOTO, SENDING_VIDEO, SENDING_AUDIO, SENDING_FILE.

Errors

from max_bot_api import (
    MaxClient,
    MaxAuthError,
    MaxRateLimitError,
    MaxTransportError,
)

async with MaxClient(token=...) as client:
    try:
        await client.send_message(chat_id=42, text="hi")
    except MaxAuthError:
        # Bad token — surface to user
        ...
    except MaxRateLimitError as e:
        await asyncio.sleep(e.retry_after or 1)
    except MaxTransportError:
        # Network problem; retry your way
        ...

subscribe, unsubscribe, and send_action can also raise MaxBadResponseError — the API returned 2xx but with {"success": false, "message": "..."} in the body. It inherits from MaxError (not MaxAPIError, since the HTTP call itself succeeded), and .message carries the server's explanation.

Retries

Retries are opt-in. Pass a RetryPolicy to the client constructor:

from max_bot_api import MaxClient, RetryPolicy

async with MaxClient(token, retry=RetryPolicy()) as client:
    await client.get_chat(42)               # retries on 5xx and transport errors
    await client.send_message(chat_id=42, text="hi")  # only retries on transport errors

The default policy: 3 attempts, exponential backoff (1s, 2s, 4s with ±25% jitter), capped at 30s per wait. Tune via RetryPolicy(max_attempts=..., backoff_initial=..., backoff_multiplier=..., backoff_max=..., jitter=...).

Read methods (get_messages, get_updates, get_chat, request_upload_url) retry on both transport errors and 5xx responses. Write methods (send_message, edit_message, delete_message, the upload POST) only retry on transport errors — a 5xx during a write could mean the server processed it, so blind retry could double-apply.

429 responses always retry. The library waits at least as long as the server's Retry-After header asks; backoff_max does not clamp the server's instruction.

Without retry=, behavior is identical to v0.1 — one attempt per call.

Webhooks

Register and manage webhook subscriptions (the receiver server is yours to run):

from max_bot_api import MaxClient, UpdateType

async with MaxClient(token) as client:
    await client.subscribe(
        url="https://my.server/max-webhook",
        update_types=[UpdateType.MESSAGE_CREATED],
        secret="my-shared-secret-12345",
    )

    subs = await client.get_subscriptions()
    for s in subs:
        print(s.url, s.update_types)

    await client.unsubscribe(url="https://my.server/max-webhook")

The URL must be HTTPS — subscribe() raises ValueError on http:// locally before any network call. While a subscription is active, long-polling via get_updates() is disabled.

Built with Claude

This project is developed in collaboration with Claude, Anthropic's AI assistant — design, code, and tests. Commits are co-authored. The repo ships with a CLAUDE.md and .claude/settings.json so any contributor running Claude on the codebase picks up the same conventions automatically. See the v0.1 design for the full collaboration workflow.

Links

• Max Bot API docs — upstream reference
• Design doc — what's in scope and what isn't
• CHANGELOG
• Contributing

License

MIT — see LICENSE.