Bots are special Telegram accounts designed to handle messages automatically. Users can interact with bots by sending them command messages in private or group chats. These accounts serve as an interface for code running somewhere on your server.

Features

• Full Telegram Bot API 3.2 support
• Telegram Payment Platform
• HTML5 Games
• Inline mode
• Incredibly fast
• AWS λ/now/Heroku/Firebase ready
• http/https/Connect.js/express.js compatible webhooks
• Easy to extend

Installation

$ npm install telegraf --save

Using yarn

$ yarn add telegraf

Telegram token

To use the Telegram Bot API, you first have to get a bot account by chatting with BotFather.

BotFather will give you a token, something like 123456789:AbCdfGhIJKlmNoQQRsTUVwxyZ.

Documentation

Telegraf developer docs

Examples

const Telegraf = require('telegraf')

const app = new Telegraf(process.env.BOT_TOKEN)
app.command('start', ({ from, reply }) => {
  console.log('start', from)
  return reply('Welcome!')
})
app.hears('hi', (ctx) => ctx.reply('Hey there!'))
app.on('sticker', (ctx) => ctx.reply('👍'))
app.startPolling()

const Telegraf = require('telegraf')
const { reply } = Telegraf

const bot = new Telegraf(process.env.BOT_TOKEN)
bot.command('/oldschool', (ctx) => ctx.reply('Hello'))
bot.command('/modern', ({ reply }) => reply('Yo'))
bot.command('/hipster', reply('λ'))
bot.startPolling()

There's some cool examples.

Quick start

Step-by-step instructions for building and deploying basic bot with 🤖 micro-bot (Telegraf high level wrapper).

Community bots

• yt-search-bot
• scrobblerBot
• Counter Bot
• GNU/Linux Indonesia Bot
• Send PR to add link to your bot

Community quickstarts

• telegram-telegraf-bot