How I Built a Telegram Bot That Sells Digital Products (Complete Guide)

From Zero to Revenue-Generating Bot I built a Telegram bot that sells 26+ digital products with Telegram Stars payments. Here's the complete technical breakdown. Tech Stack Python 3.11 + pyTelegramBotAPI SQLite for user tracking fpdf2 for PDF generation Telegram Stars for payments (no Stripe needed!) Step 1: Bot Setup import telebot from telebot.types import LabeledPrice BOT_TOKEN = "your_token_here" bot = telebot.TeleBot(BOT_TOKEN) @bot.message_handler(commands=['start']) def start(message): bot.send_message( message.chat.id, "Welcome to SwiftUI Dev Shop!\n" "Browse products with /catalog" ) Step 2: Product Catalog PRODUCTS = { "swiftui_starter": { "name": "SwiftUI Starter Kit Pro", "description": "Complete project templates, network layer, auth flow", "price_stars": 65, "file": "products/swiftui_starter.pdf" }, # ... more products } @bot.message_handler(commands=['catalog']) def catalog(message): for key, product in PRODUCTS.items(): text = f"*{product['name']}*\n{product['descriptio