/E-skeleton-telegram

Primary LanguageJavaScript

Who is alfred?

Is a simple bot that for now it will send a message to your Telegram group chat when querying a certain path.

Sending message

The sending message post request is expecting three parameters message, botId and chatId.

  • Path => 9001/send_message
function sendMessageToESkeletonTelegramServer() { 
		let message = "Hello World"
		let botId = "Your bot's id"
		let chatId = "Your chat's id"

	$ axios.post("http://yourNetworkPath:9001/send_message", message, botId, chatId)
	   	   .then((res) => console.log(res))
}

Creating Bot and getting Id's

In order to create a bot we need to start a conversation with @botFather

/newbot

He will ask first for your bot's name and then for the bot's username. Fill both according to your desires and once you are done a message will appear.

Done! Congratulations on your new bot. You will find it at 
t.me/whatever_your_bots_name. You can now add a description, about 
section and profile picture for your bot, see /help for a list 
of commands. By the way, when you havve finished creating your cool 
bot, ping our Bot Support if you want a better username for it. 
Just make sure the bot is fully operational before you do this.'

Use this token to access the HTTP API:
* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *
This is the token the you want to copy
5125132423412:JFSLJFDO28FFEHWSDKFHSKHF2983FH-k9M // This is a random token that I made up :p
 * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *
Keep your token secure and store it safely, it can be used by anyone to control your bot.
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For a description of the Bot API, see this page: https://core.telegram.org/bots/api

Now we just need the chat's group id. For that we'll follow a series of steps

Here is the sequence that worked for me after struggling for several hours:

Assume the bot name is my_bot.

  1. Add the bot to the group Go to the group, click on group name, click on Add members, in the searchbox search for your bot like this: @my_bot, select your bot and click add.

  2. Send a dummy message to the bot We want to send a message to the bot so we'll send our id /my_id @my_bot (where "my_bot" is your bot's username)

  3. Parse bot's updates Go to following url: https://api.telegram.org/botXXX:YYYY/getUpdates replace XXX:YYYY with your bot's id

  4. Find Id Look for "chat":{"id":-zzzzzzzzzz, ...] Where-zzzzzzzzz is your chat id (with the negative sign).

And there we have it!