Node.js module to interact with official Telegram Bot API. A bot token is needed, to obtain one, talk to @botfather and create a new bot.
npm install --save node-telegram-bot-api
const TelegramBot = require('node-telegram-bot-api');
// replace the value below with the Telegram token you receive from @BotFather
const token = 'YOUR_TELEGRAM_BOT_TOKEN';
// Create a bot that uses 'polling' to fetch new updates
const bot = new TelegramBot(token, {polling: true});
// Matches "/echo [whatever]"
bot.onText(/\/echo (.+)/, (msg, match) => {
// 'msg' is the received Message from Telegram
// 'match' is the result of executing the regexp above on the text content
// of the message
const chatId = msg.chat.id;
const resp = match[1]; // the captured "whatever"
// send back the matched "whatever" to the chat
bot.sendMessage(chatId, resp);
});
// Listen for any kind of message. There are different kinds of
// messages.
bot.on('message', (msg) => {
const chatId = msg.chat.id;
// send a message to the chat acknowledging receipt of their message
bot.sendMessage(chatId, 'Received your message');
});
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Note: Development is done against the master branch. Code for the latest release resides on the release branch Experimental features reside on the experimental branch.
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Some things built using this library, and might interest you:
- tgfancy: A Fancy, Higher-Level Wrapper for Telegram Bot API
- node-telegram-bot-api-middleware: Middleware for node-telegram-bot-api
- teleirc: A simple Telegram ↔ IRC gateway
- bot-brother: Node.js library to help you easily create telegram bots
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Copyright (c) 2017 Yago