diff --git a/srcpkgs/python3-telegram/patches/remove-precompiled-libraries.patch b/srcpkgs/python3-telegram/patches/remove-precompiled-libraries.patch
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..4a84da651a6
--- /dev/null
+++ b/srcpkgs/python3-telegram/patches/remove-precompiled-libraries.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,17 @@
+# Patch from https://aur.archlinux.org/cgit/aur.git/plain/0002-Remove-binarys.diff?h=python-telegram
+# Upstream issue: https://github.com/alexander-akhmetov/python-telegram/issues/119
+diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
+index a1ac7b0..aecc107 100644
+--- setup.py
++++ setup.py
+@@ -25,10 +25,4 @@ setup(
+     packages=[
+         'telegram',
+     ],
+-    package_data={
+-        'telegram': [
+-            'lib/darwin/*',
+-            'lib/linux/*',
+-        ],
+-    },
+ )
diff --git a/srcpkgs/python3-telegram/patches/use-system-tdlib.patch b/srcpkgs/python3-telegram/patches/use-system-tdlib.patch
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..298db83a5c1
--- /dev/null
+++ b/srcpkgs/python3-telegram/patches/use-system-tdlib.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,29 @@
+# Patch from https://aur.archlinux.org/cgit/aur.git/plain/0001-Use-system-tdlib.diff?h=python-telegram
+# Upstream issue: https://github.com/alexander-akhmetov/python-telegram/issues/119
+diff --git a/telegram/tdjson.py b/telegram/tdjson.py
+index 091145e..21c0361 100644
+--- telegram/tdjson.py
++++ telegram/tdjson.py
+@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@ import json
+ import logging
+ import platform
+ from ctypes import CDLL, CFUNCTYPE, c_int, c_char_p, c_double, c_void_p, c_longlong
++from ctypes.util import find_library
+ from typing import Any, Dict, Optional, Union
+ 
+ import pkg_resources
+@@ -10,13 +11,7 @@ logger = logging.getLogger(__name__)
+ 
+ 
+ def _get_tdjson_lib_path() -> str:
+-    if platform.system().lower() == 'darwin':
+-        lib_name = 'darwin/libtdjson.dylib'
+-    else:
+-        lib_name = 'linux/libtdjson.so'
+-
+-    return pkg_resources.resource_filename('telegram', f'lib/{lib_name}')
+-
++    return find_library("tdjson")
+ 
+ class TDJson:
+     def __init__(self, library_path: Optional[str] = None, verbosity: int = 2) -> None:
diff --git a/srcpkgs/python3-telegram/template b/srcpkgs/python3-telegram/template
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..13cc66ab33c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/srcpkgs/python3-telegram/template
@@ -0,0 +1,22 @@
+# Template file for 'python3-telegram'
+pkgname=python3-telegram
+version=0.14.0
+revision=1
+wrksrc=python-telegram-${version}
+build_style=python3-module
+hostmakedepends="python3"
+depends="libtd python3-setuptools"
+short_desc="Python library for building Telegram clients"
+maintainer="Maxim Karasev <begs@disroot.org>"
+license="MIT"
+homepage="https://github.com/alexander-akhmetov/python-telegram"
+distfiles="https://github.com/alexander-akhmetov/python-telegram/archive/${version}.tar.gz"
+checksum=11b0a2387bae642eb7f134fe35b9ef67b8183aa961412bcdfa86ff404beed897
+
+post_extract() {
+	rm -r telegram/lib
+}
+
+post_install() {
+	vlicense LICENSE
+}