TDLight Java

Complete Bot and Userbot Telegram library written in Java, based on TDLib

💻 Supported platforms

Java versions: from Java 17 to Java 19+ (Legacy Java 8+ support with tdlight-java-8)

Operating systems: Linux, Windows, MacOS

CPU architectures:

• i386/x86 (Linux, Windows)
• amd64/x86_64 (Linux, Windows, OSX)
• armhf/armv7 (Linux)
• aarch64/armv8/arm64 (Linux)
• s390x (Linux)
• ppc64el/ppc64le (Linux)

📚 Required libraries

• Linux: OpenSSL, zlib
• MacOS: OpenSSL
• Windows: Microsoft Visual C++ Redistributable

Install OpenSSL on macOS

You must install openssl@3 using the brew package manager , then link openssl to /usr/local/opt/openssl

If you don't know how to do this, type the following commands in your terminal:

brew install openssl@3
ln -sf /usr/local/Cellar/openssl@3/3.0.0 /usr/local/opt/openssl

📚 How to use the library

Setting up the library using Maven

If you are using Maven, edit your pom.xml file as below:

<project>
	<repositories>

		<!-- Add the following repository -->
		<repository>
			<id>mchv</id>
			<name>MCHV Apache Maven Packages</name>
			<url>https://mvn.mchv.eu/repository/mchv/</url>
		</repository>

	</repositories>

	<dependencyManagement>
		<dependencies>
			
			<!-- Add the following dependency -->
			<dependency>
				<groupId>it.tdlight</groupId>
				<artifactId>tdlight-java-bom</artifactId>
				<version>VERSION</version>
				<type>pom</type>
				<scope>import</scope>
			</dependency>
		</dependencies>
	</dependencyManagement>

	<dependencies>

		<!-- Add the following dependencies -->
		<dependency>
			<groupId>it.tdlight</groupId>
			<artifactId>tdlight-java</artifactId> <!-- Use tdlight-java-8 if you are using java 8 to 16 -->
			<!-- don't specify the version here -->
		</dependency>
		<dependency>
			<groupId>it.tdlight</groupId>
			<artifactId>tdlight-natives-linux-amd64</artifactId>
			<!-- don't specify the version here -->
		</dependency>
		<!-- Include other native versions that you want, for example for windows, osx, ... -->

	</dependencies>
</project>

Replace VERSION with the latest release version, you can find it here.

Setting up the library using Gradle

If you are using Gradle, add the following lines into your build.gradle file

repositories {
	maven { url "https://mvn.mchv.eu/repository/mchv/" }
}
dependencies {
	// import the BOM
	implementation platform('it.tdlight:tdlight-java-bom:VERSION')

	// do not specify the versions on the dependencies below!
	implementation 'it.tdlight:tdlight-java' // Use tdlight-java-8 if you are using java 8 to 16
	implementation 'it.tdlight:tdlight-natives-linux-amd64'
	// Include other native versions that you want, for example for windows, osx, ...
}

Replace VERSION with the latest release version, you can find it here.

⚒ Native dependencies

To use TDLight Java you need to include one or more native dependencies:

• tdlight-natives-linux-amd64
• tdlight-natives-linux-aarch64
• tdlight-natives-linux-x86
• tdlight-natives-linux-armhf
• tdlight-natives-linux-ppc64le
• tdlight-natives-linux-s390x
• tdlight-natives-windows-amd64
• tdlight-natives-osx-amd64

Usage

An example on how to use TDLight Java can be found here: Example.java

Advanced usage

If you want to disable the automatic runtime shutdown hook, you should set the property it.tdlight.enableShutdownHooks to false

TDLight methods documentation

TdApi JavaDoc

TDLight extended features

TDLight has some extended features compared to TDLib, that you can see on the TDLight official repository.

About

License

TDLight is licensed by Andrea Cavalli andrea@cavallium.it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License 3

Libraries licenses

JTDLib is licensed by Ernesto Castellotti erny.castell@gmail.com under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License 3

TDLib is licensed by Aliaksei Levin levlam@telegram.org and Arseny Smirnov arseny30@gmail.com under the terms of the Boost Software License

OpenSSL is licensed under the terms of Apache License v2

Zlib is licensed under the terms of Zlib license