Say hello to the Telegram Bot template! Built on the grammY framework and hosted by the Cyclic serverless platform.
- Handling Inline Queries.
- Responding to commands.
- Interactive Inline Keyboards.
Try it out now! @CyclicDemoBot
Make sure that you have the following programs installed on your own local machine.
- Telegram Client.
- cURL.
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- Grab your Telegram bot's API token by sending a message to @BotFather.
- Add that API token to your Cyclic deployment's environment variables.
Connect your Telegram bot to your server by sending the following HTTP request using your terminal:
export TELEGRAM_API_TOKEN=... # YOUR TELEGRAM API TOKEN
export TELEGRAM_WEBHOOK_URL=... # YOUR CYCLIC DEPLOYMENT URL
curl "https://api.telegram.org/bot$TELEGRAM_API_TOKEN/setWebhook?url=$TELEGRAM_WEBHOOK_URL"
- Node.
- Yarn.
- Telegram Client.
- Clone the repository to your machine:
git clone https://github.com/eludadev/telegram-bot && cd telegram-bot
- Grab your bot's API token by messaging @BotFather. (see above)
- Create the file
.env
and add the following line:
TELEGRAM_TOKEN=... # YOUR TELEGRAM API TOKEN
- Download dependencies:
yarn
- Start your bot:
yarn dev
Note This feature is also known as Inline Queries.