import telebot from telebot import custom_filters bot = telebot.TeleBot('TOKEN') # Check if message starts with @admin tag @bot.message_handler(text_startswith="@admin") def start_filter(message): bot.send_message(message.chat.id, "Looks like you are calling admin, wait...") # Check if text is hi or hello @bot.message_handler(text=['hi','hello']) def text_filter(message): bot.send_message(message.chat.id, "Hi, {name}!".format(name=message.from_user.first_name)) # Do not forget to register filters bot.add_custom_filter(custom_filters.TextMatchFilter()) bot.add_custom_filter(custom_filters.TextStartsFilter()) bot.infinity_polling()