mderasse / botkit-telegram

A Botkit connector for Telegram with support for text.

botkit-telegram

🤖👾 A Botkit connector for Telegram with support for text.

Highly based on Brandon Him / brh55 work

This Botkit platform connector is intended to be used for Telegram. It was develop for a simple need to reply to users. Functionnality are limited...

Install

Note: Minimum Node Requirement 8+, Recommended 10, and >=10.10.0 if you use audio.

$ npm install botkit-telegram

Basic Usage

const BotkitTelegram = require('botkit-telegram');
const config = {
    token: '**' // Telegram bot token
}

const telegramBot = BotkitTelegram(config);

telegramBot.hears('hello','direct_message',(bot, message) => {
    bot.reply(message, 'how goes there :)!');
});

telegramBot.hears('.*', 'direct_mention', (bot, message) => {
    bot.reply(message, 'leave me to be please.');
});

Events

When you want your bot to respond to particular events that may be relevant, you can use the .on method.

discordBot.on(EVENT_NAME, event => {
    // do stuff
});

Incoming Events

Event	Description
ambient	a channel the bot is in has a new message
direct_message	the bot received a direct message from a user
direct_mention	the bot was addressed directly in a channel ("@bot hello")
mention	the bot was mentioned by someone in a message ("hello @bot")

License

Ⓒ MIT Matthieu Derasse

Please let me know if you plan on forking or would like professional support. Open-source is a hobby, but it would be great as a full-time gig :)