Broid Telegram Integration
Broid Integrations is an open source project providing a suite of Activity Streams 2 libraries for unified communications among a vast number of communication platforms.
Connect your App to Multiple Messaging Channels with One OpenSource Language.
Message types supported
Simple
Image
Video
Buttons
Location
Phone number
✅
✅
✅
✅
Location, Phone number are platform limitations.
Getting started
Connect to Telegram
import broidTelegram from ' broid-telegram '
const telegram = new broidTelegram ( {
token : " <api_key> " ,
http : {
webhookURL : " http://127.0.0.1/ "
}
} )
telegram . connect ( )
. subscribe ( {
next : data => console . log ( data ) ,
error : err => console . error ( ` Something went wrong: ${ err . message } ` ) ,
complete : ( ) => console . log ( ' complete ' ) ,
} )
Options availables
name
Type
default
Description
serviceID
string
random
Arbitrary identifier of the running instance
logLevel
string
info
Can be : fatal
, error
, warn
, info
, debug
, trace
token
string
Your API Key
http
object
{ "port": 8080, "http": "0.0.0.0", "webhookURL": "127.0.0.1" }
WebServer options (host
, port
, webhookURL
)
Receive a message
telegram . listen ( )
. subscribe ( {
next : data => console . log ( ` Received message: ${ data } ` ) ,
error : err => console . error ( ` Something went wrong: ${ err . message } ` ) ,
complete : ( ) => console . log ( ' complete ' ) ,
} )
Buttons supported
mediaType
Action types
Content of value property
text/html
redirect
URL to be opened in the built-in browser.
postback
Text of message which client will sent back as ordinary chat message.
Post a message
To send a message, the format should use the broid-schemas .
const message_formated = ' ... '
telegram . send ( message_formated )
. then ( ( ) => console . log ( " ok " ) )
. catch ( err => console . error ( err ) )
Examples of messages
Message received
A private message received from Sally
{
" @context " : " https://www.w3.org/ns/activitystreams " ,
" published " : 1483677146 ,
" type " : " Create " ,
" generator " : {
" id " : " 67c9cb10-8a74-42c8-ba55-294d0447cdf9 " ,
" type " : " Service " ,
" name " : " telegram "
} ,
" actor " : {
" id " : " 43418006 " ,
" type " : " Person " ,
" name " : " sally2 "
} ,
" target " : {
" id " : " 43418006 " ,
" type " : " Person " ,
" name " : " sally2 "
} ,
" object " : {
" type " : " Note " ,
" id " : " 80 " ,
" content " : " Hello world "
}
}
A message received from Sally
{
" @context " : " https://www.w3.org/ns/activitystreams " ,
" published " : 1483677146 ,
" type " : " Create " ,
" generator " : {
" id " : " 67c9cb10-8a74-42c8-ba55-294d0447cdf9 " ,
" type " : " Service " ,
" name " : " telegram "
} ,
" actor " : {
" id " : " 43418006 " ,
" type " : " Person " ,
" name " : " sally2 "
} ,
" target " : {
" id " : " -199586965 " ,
" name " : " test " ,
" type " : " Group "
} ,
" object " : {
" type " : " Note " ,
" id " : " 80 " ,
" content " : " Hello world "
}
}
A video/image received from Sally
{
" @context " : " https://www.w3.org/ns/activitystreams " ,
" published " : 1483677146 ,
" type " : " Create " ,
" generator " : {
" id " : " 67c9cb10-8a74-42c8-ba55-294d0447cdf9 " ,
" type " : " Service " ,
" name " : " telegram "
} ,
" actor " : {
" id " : " 43418006 " ,
" type " : " Person " ,
" name " : " sally2 "
} ,
" target " : {
" id " : " -199586965 " ,
" name " : " test " ,
" type " : " Group "
} ,
" object " : {
" id " : " 81 " ,
" mediaType " : " image/jpeg " ,
" name " : " african-elephant-standing_9033_600x450.jpg " ,
" type " : " Image " ,
" url " : " http://images.nationalgeographic.com/wpf/media-live/photos/000/090/cache/african-elephant-standing_9033_600x450.jpg "
}
}
A quick reply callback received.
{
" @context " : " https://www.w3.org/ns/activitystreams " ,
" generator " : {
" id " : " 939863d7-cdf5-4b46-adad-cb430c5bd133 " ,
" name " : " telegram " ,
" type " : " Service "
} ,
" published " : 1483920 ,
" type " : " Create " ,
" actor " : {
" id " : " 43418006 " ,
" type " : " Person " ,
" name " : " sally2 "
} ,
" target " : {
" id " : " -199636965 " ,
" name " : " test " ,
" type " : " Group "
} ,
" object " : {
" content " : " DEVELOPER_DEFINED_PAYLOAD_FOR_PICKING_GREEN " ,
" id " : " 186478908178746874 " ,
" type " : " Note " ,
" context " : {
" content " : " 6557728837267605745 " ,
" name " : " chat_instance " ,
" type " : " Object "
}
}
}
Send a message
{
" @context " : " https://www.w3.org/ns/activitystreams " ,
" type " : " Create " ,
" generator " : {
" id " : " f6e92eb6-f69e-4eae-8158-06613461cf3a " ,
" type " : " Service " ,
" name " : " telegram "
} ,
" object " : {
" type " : " Note " ,
" content " : " hello world "
} ,
" to " : {
" type " : " Person " ,
" id " : " 43418004 "
}
}
Send a message with quick reply buttons
{
" @context " : " https://www.w3.org/ns/activitystreams " ,
" type " : " Create " ,
" generator " : {
" id " : " f6e92eb6-f69e-4eae-8158-06613461cf3a " ,
" type " : " Service " ,
" name " : " telegram "
} ,
" object " : {
" type " : " Note " ,
" content " : " hello world " ,
" attachment " : [
{
" type " : " Button " ,
" name " : " Green " ,
" url " : " PAYLOAD_GREEN " ,
} ,
{
" type " : " Button " ,
" mediaType " : " text/html " ,
" name " : " Go to Broid website " ,
" url " : " https://www.broid.ai " ,
}
]
} ,
" to " : {
" type " : " Person " ,
" id " : " 43418004 "
}
}
{
" @context " : " https://www.w3.org/ns/activitystreams " ,
" type " : " Create " ,
" generator " : {
" id " : " f6e92eb6-f69e-4eae-8158-06613461cf3a " ,
" type " : " Service " ,
" name " : " telegram "
} ,
" object " : {
" type " : " Image " ,
" content " : " hello world " ,
" url " : " https://www.broid.ai/images/fake.png "
} ,
" to " : {
" type " : " Person " ,
" id " : " 43418004 "
}
}
Contributing to Broid
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Code of Conduct
Make sure that you're read and understand the Code of Conduct .
Copyright & License
Copyright (c) 2016-2017 Broid.ai
This project is licensed under the AGPL 3, which can be
found here .