Node.js Telegram Bot API

Node.js module to interact with the official 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

constTelegramBot=require('node-telegram-bot-api');// replace the value below with the Telegram token you receive from @BotFatherconsttoken='YOUR_TELEGRAM_BOT_TOKEN';// Create a bot that uses 'polling' to fetch new updatesconstbot=newTelegramBot(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 messageconstchatId=msg.chat.id;constresp=match[1];// the captured "whatever"// send back the matched "whatever" to the chatbot.sendMessage(chatId,resp);});// Listen for any kind of message. There are different kinds of// messages.bot.on('message',(msg)=>{constchatId=msg.chat.id;// send a message to the chat acknowledging receipt of their messagebot.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.

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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