diff --git a/dev-python/tulir-telethon/Manifest b/dev-python/tulir-telethon/Manifest
index 399459ebe0..ba7c4d83c0 100644
--- a/dev-python/tulir-telethon/Manifest
+++ b/dev-python/tulir-telethon/Manifest
@@ -1,2 +1,3 @@
 DIST tulir-telethon-1.28.0_alpha9.gh.tar.gz 485954 BLAKE2B 2658d9b8e64223cc7daddd531ca9c5bdec3cb0edf27949b227a8c34d3a1f6546b8136b845cc1822e643b83046742015890d405ca40f461d68aa9410fb25703e0 SHA512 7e2a375be30700b13aeae088385d19344288895c95d2262fb8764f66ffe7d145d6ade4c9e31313e7df04a5c684ae7ee0571318b6eedd519aacaf77a61037381a
 DIST tulir-telethon-1.29.0_alpha1.gh.tar.gz 490598 BLAKE2B d3ff45d6a18ac5673be18ff121e9151be4db8790f8ceff6ab80eb3ede089f67c336305e70340bac13609c99c53d44da7d684c510cf2055346184eb817e1fbe1e SHA512 01e8e85a485cdba047c340712a1ceaf1dec56bff936f7f76b5b709e32604c5bfd8e71cd4a30c6f6df47f5218f4bc3d96df01e36ec1608f3f76026543c1597193
+DIST tulir-telethon-1.29.0_alpha2.gh.tar.gz 491082 BLAKE2B d965e4e6116ccff86cd6a0f561bd25a0af9bee85c314cae358f47eef30e17345c1b770088875717699b584649652a136be7ccc7da370434aa545d7620a2b9ac9 SHA512 f3e97bbc1bf505866661965206f65f25224508d623bc5cffefea5743ba21c2b8c94afd60c7da2a7854e86cde52557a3609fe22c9fb888ea52ed286d555d3fdbf
diff --git a/dev-python/tulir-telethon/tulir-telethon-1.29.0_alpha2.ebuild b/dev-python/tulir-telethon/tulir-telethon-1.29.0_alpha2.ebuild
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..afaba4efa4
--- /dev/null
+++ b/dev-python/tulir-telethon/tulir-telethon-1.29.0_alpha2.ebuild
@@ -0,0 +1,41 @@
+# Copyright 2022-2023 Gentoo Authors
+# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
+
+EAPI=8
+
+DISTUTILS_USE_PEP517=setuptools
+PYTHON_COMPAT=( python3_{10..11} )
+
+inherit distutils-r1
+
+MY_PV="${PV/_alph/}"
+DESCRIPTION="Pure Python 3 MTProto API Telegram client library, for bots too!"
+HOMEPAGE="https://github.com/tulir/Telethon/"
+SRC_URI="https://github.com/tulir/Telethon/archive/v${MY_PV}.tar.gz -> ${P}.gh.tar.gz"
+S="${WORKDIR}/Telethon-${MY_PV}"
+
+LICENSE="MIT"
+SLOT="0"
+KEYWORDS="~amd64"
+IUSE="test"
+RESTRICT="!test? ( test )"
+
+RDEPEND="
+	dev-python/cryptg[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+	dev-python/hachoir[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+	dev-python/pillow[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+	dev-python/pyaes[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+	dev-python/PySocks[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+	dev-python/python-socks[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+	dev-python/rsa[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+	test? (
+		dev-python/pytest-asyncio[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+	)
+"
+DEPEND="${RDEPEND}"
+
+distutils_enable_tests pytest
+
+EPYTEST_DESELECT=(
+	tests/readthedocs/quick_references/test_client_reference.py::test_all_methods_present
+)