Telegram Gift Improvements: How to Track Rare Models in Real Time

Gifts on Telegram have long since ceased to be just pictures. A regular gift can be upgraded—turned into a unique collectible item with its own number and set of characteristics. People collect, trade, and sell these gifts, and the rarest ones are significantly more expensive than the regular ones.

What Happens When You Upgrade

When an owner upgrades a gift, it receives:

• a unique number in the collection, for example, “Lucky Locket #16988”;
• a model—the appearance of the gift itself;
• background—the color and design of the backing;
• pattern—the symbols on the background.

Each characteristic has a rarity—the percentage of gifts in the collection with the same value. The lower the percentage, the rarer the characteristic. A combination of several rare characteristics makes a gift truly unique.

Why It’s Important to Be the First to Know

Characteristics are assigned randomly at the moment of an upgrade. New upgraded gifts appear every minute, and rare combinations can be found among them. Collectors and traders want to be the first to know about them—before anyone else notices.

It’s impossible to keep track of this manually: there are too many upgrades, and the interesting ones get lost in the flood.

How the Monitoring Bot Works

The bot tracks new upgrades in real time and immediately sends a gift card containing:

• the gift’s name and number;
• the owner;
• the model, background, and pattern—along with the rarity percentage for each;
• a link to open the gift right away.

You can receive notifications via private messages or in your channel. This way, the channel with the stream of upgrades becomes useful content for your subscribers as well.

How to Use Monitoring Effectively

1. Look at the combination, not just a single characteristic. A rare model on a common background is valued differently than a rare model on a rare background.
2. Compare with the market. Rarity doesn’t guarantee a price—it depends on current demand for the collection.
3. Respond quickly, but don’t rush. The advantage of monitoring is time, but you should still think through your purchase decision.
4. Be aware of the risks. The collectible gift market is young and volatile. This is not investment advice—only buy what you’re willing to hold onto.

Where to Get This Bot

A ready-to-use bot with source code for tracking gift upgrades is available below. You can run it on your own server and connect it to your channel. Instructions on how to set up the bot are described in the article “How to Create a Shop Bot on Telegram”: the steps involving BotFather and the server are the same.