Tgbot
A simple Telegram bot on Crystal (http://crystal-lang.org/).
Installation
You need Crystal 0.20 or Docker.
Environment variables
APP_TOKENA authentication token. https://core.telegram.org/bots/api#authorizing-your-botAPP_CHAT_IDA chat id (or a user id), who will receive messages from the bot. https://core.telegram.org/bots/api#chat
Usage
Starting via Crystal:
crystal build src/tgbot.cr --release
APP_TOKEN=xxx APP_CHAT_ID=xxx ./tgbot
Starting via Docker:
docker build -t tgbot .
docker run -e APP_TOKEN=xxx -e APP_CHAT_ID=xxx tgbot
You can submit JSON-message to the bot.
echo '{"text": "Hello, dude!"}' | nc 127.0.0.1 12800