conference call

a type of call between multiple users that was upgraded from a peer-to-peer call; full name end-to-end encrypted conference call

peer-to-peer call

a type of call that is made between two users and can be upgraded to a conference call

group call

(also video chat, formerly voice chat) a type of call that can be created within channels or groups, can have an unlimited number of listeners, and up to 10 simultaneous speakers

video chat

another name for group calls

voice chat

the former name of group calls from Dec 2020 until Jun 2021 when video support was added to them

tgcallsjs

an unmaintained JavaScript library for interacting with group calls that was built from parts of telegram-react

github.com/tgcallsjs/tgcalls

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py-tgcalls

based on ntgcalls, a Python library for interacting with group calls; formerly based on tgcallsjs; not to be confused with pytgcalls

github.com/pytgcalls/pytgcalls

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pytgcalls

an unmaintained Python library for interacting with group calls authored by the same person who created Telegram Crawler; not to be confused with py-tgcalls

github.com/MarshalX/tgcalls

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ntgcalls

a native library for interacting with group calls that is lightweight compared to tgcalls and provides static builds with C interfaces

github.com/pytgcalls/ntgcalls

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GramJS

a JavaScript Telegram API client; a modified version of it is used in Web A

github.com/gram-js/gramjs

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Anton Maydell

a software developer who worked with Telegram in its early days; current position unknown, probably works on the API if still at Telegram

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