What is messenger-bridge-telegram?

This Python project creates a two-way bridge between Facebook Messenger and Telegram, letting you manage your Messenger conversations inside Telegram. Some people prefer Telegram's interface but still need to stay reachable on Messenger, so this tool mirrors each Messenger conversation into its own dedicated topic inside a Telegram group, keeping everything organized in one place while preserving context, replies, and reactions. Messages, replies, reactions, image uploads, edits, and unsends all flow in real time between the two platforms. When you reply inside Telegram, your reply goes back to Messenger automatically, and vice versa. Reactions also sync between platforms when a matching message mapping exists, and duplicate reaction notifications are filtered out. The tool also handles end to end encrypted Messenger conversations, though this requires building a separate Go binary as a helper component that talks to the Python code over a local JSON-based protocol. Setup requires a Telegram bot token from BotFather, a Telegram supergroup with topics enabled and the bot given admin rights, and Facebook session cookies copied from a logged in browser, since there is no official Messenger API being used. The tool depends on a library called fbchat-v2, installed directly from its GitHub repository, plus the python-telegram-bot library for the Telegram side. It runs on Windows, Linux, or macOS with Python 3.10 or newer, and stores conversation and message mappings locally in a JSON file so replies keep pointing to the right original message. You would use this if you want to centralize your messaging into Telegram while keeping an active Facebook Messenger presence, and are comfortable managing browser session cookies and, optionally, compiling a small Go component for encrypted chats.