yagopNode.js Telegram Bot API
📦 Install
npm i node-telegram-bot-api
✍️ Note: If you use Typescript you can install this package that contains type definitions for this library
npm install --save-dev @types/node-telegram-bot-api
🚀 Usage
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');
});
📚 Documentation
- Usage
- Examples
- Tutorials
- Help Information
- API Reference: (api-release / development / experimental)
- Contributing to the Project
- Experimental Features
Note: Development is done against the development branch. Code for the latest release resides on the master branch. Experimental features reside on the experimental branch.
💭 Community
We thank all the developers in the Open-Source community who continuously take their time and effort in advancing this project. See our list of contributors.
We have a Telegram channel where we post updates on the Project. Head over and subscribe!
We also have a Telegram group to discuss issues related to this library.
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👥 Contributors
License
The MIT License (MIT)
Copyright © 2019 Yago