Telegram Bot
Another messaging platform Telegram that offer programmable bot. The bot uses HTTP API, and its endpoint is:
You can find list of available command here: https://core.telegram.org/bots#commands
What I did to set up my first bot..
Talk to BotFather using your Telegram account, send him a message “/newbot” and then he'll guide you from there. To display things you can do with BotFather, send him “/help”.
Once the new bot is created, you can test it by visiting this url:
https://api.telegram.org/bot{your_bot_token}/getMe
Using getMe command will return information about your bot. Something like this:
{"ok":true,"result":{"id":"bot_id","first_name":"bot_first_name","username":"bot_username"}}
To test whether the bot can receive message, try sending a message to @your_bot_name from your telegram account then visit this url:
https://api.telegram.org/bot{your_bot_token}/getUpdates
It will display things sent to your bot in JSON format. To dig deeper, you can visit official documentation for Telegram bot here:
By the way, in case you're into PHP, someone made SDK here: https://irazasyed.github.io/telegram-bot-sdk
Happy coding 😁 !
Updates
Sun, 5 Mar 2017 at 23:18:36 MYT
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