saeedNW / telegram-bot

telegram-bot

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Requirements:

• Ngrok
• Node.js
• Telegram bot token

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Initialization

After you have ngrok installed and running. Create an env file like ".env.example" and replace the value of "SERVER_URL" with the URL received from ngrok (note that every time that you rerun ngrok you'll receives a new link)

After that open telegram and search for BotFather and create a new bot. replace the value of TOKEN in env file with the token received from BotFather

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run bot

There are two ways to run this bot project, bot before that you need to install application dependencies

npm install

npm run dev:simpleApp # will run a simple bot which works directly with telegram APIs

npm run dev:telegraf # will run a bot which uses telegraf module to integrate with telegram webhooks