veryheavypickle / telegramChatBot

A general use chatbot for telegram

telegramChatBot

A general use chatbot for telegram

Installation

1. cd into the directory you wish for this to be installed
2. $ git clone https://github.com/veryheavypickle/telegramChatBot.git
3. $ cd telegramChatBot
4. $ pip install -r requirements.txt

Running

1. Make sure you are in the telegramChatBot directory
2. $ python main.py
3. ???
4. Profit!

Code

An example of adding another handler for the command "/test"

where testFunction has to be a python programmed function

handlers = [MessageHandler(Filters.text & (~Filters.command), messageHandler),
            CommandHandler('start', start),
            CommandHandler('test', testFunction)]

Example of testFunction

def testFunction(update, context):
    userID = str(update.effective_chat.id)
    sendMessage(context, userID, "Bot works well!")