hubot-telegram-better

A better hubot adapter for interfacting with the Telegram Bot API

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Installation & Usage

First of reading the docs on how to create a new Telegram Bot. Once you have a bot created, follow these steps:

• npm install --save hubot-telegram-better
• Set the environment variables specified in Configuration
• Run hubot bin/hubot -a telegram

Configuration

This adapter uses the following environment variables:

TELEGRAM_TOKEN (required)

The token that the BotFather gives you

TELEGRAM_WEBHOOK (optional)

You can specify a webhook URL. The adapter will register TELEGRAM_WEBHOOK/TELEGRAM_TOKEN with Telegram and listen there.

TELEGRAM_INTERVAL (optional)

You can specify the interval (in milliseconds) in which the adapter will poll Telegram for updates. This option only applies if you are not using a webhook.

TELEGRAM_AUTO_MARKDOWN (optional)

You may disable auto Mardown feature if desired. It is enabled by default, but detection is very simple and may break with some external scripts (like hubot-help).

Telegram Specific Functionality (ie. Stickers, Images)

If you want to create a script that relies on specific Telegram functionality that is not available to Hubot normally, you can do so by emitting the telegram:invoke event in your script:

 
module.exports = function (robot) {
 
    robot.hear(/send sticker/i, function (res) {
 
        # https://core.telegram.org/bots/api#sendsticker
 
        robot.emit('telegram:invoke', 'sendSticker', { chat_id: xxx, sticker: 'sticker_id' }, function (error, response) {
            console.log(error)
            console.log(response)
        });
    });
};
 

Note: An example script of how to use this is located in the scripts/ folder

If you want to supplement your message delivery with extra features such as markdown syntax or keyboard replies, you can specify these settings on the res.envelope variable in your plugin.

 
robot.respond(/(.*)/i, function (res) {
    res.envelope.telegram = { reply_markup: { keyboard: [["test"]] }}
 
    res.reply("Select the option from the keyboard specified.")
}
 

Note: Markdown will automatically be parsed if the supported markdown characters are included. You can override this by specifying the parse_mode value in the envelope.telegram key.

Development

First, you need clone this repo to your local.

install package

npm install

link

npm run link

run

npm start

or

bin/hubot

Test

npm run test