kurt-stolle/telegram-bot-example

Meet Frank, a bot for Telegram using the Go programming language

Telegram Bot Example

This is Frank. An example of a telegram bot created in Go.

Environment

This bot uses the following enviroment variables:

• FRANKBOT_KEY: The bot API key for FrankBot

Heroku

This app is fully compatible with Heroku, use Herokuvars to set env variables.

Installation

To install, simply run go get github.com/kurt-stolle/telegram-bot-example. You may want to create your own test bot if you want to contribute to the project. To build the project, navigate to the project base directory and run go build. To run the project, run the file generated by go build. For linux this should be ./telegram-bot-example, for Windows this should be telegram-bot-example.exe.

Usage

Place your Telegram bot key in a file named key.txt. This file ought to be in the base directory of the Go project. Make sure your key.txt does not have newlines or tabs or any other special characters!