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Telegram

Telegram is a cloud-based instant messaging and voice over IP service. It was developed by the Russian entrepreneur Pavel Durov and his brother Nikolai Durov, who were also the founders of VK.com and Odnoklassniki.

Telegram is one of the most popular messaging apps in the world. It has over 500 million active users and is available in 20 different languages.

Telegram

How to connect to Telegram​

To connect to Telegram, you need to create a Telegram bot. You can do this by following the instructions in the Telegram documentation.

Once you have created a bot, you will receive a token. This token is used to authenticate your bot with Telegram.

How to configure Telegram​

The shortest route is to use Telegram blueprint for Sarufi, which is available in our Github repository. You can find it here by clonning the directory.

git clone https://github.com/Neurotech-HQ/telegram-chatbot-blueprint

You only need to configure the config.yaml file found in cloned directory. You can find instructions in the README.md file.

sarufi:
  username: sarufi_username
  password: sarufi_password
  bot_id: sarufi_bot_id

telegram:
  token: telegram_token
  start_message: |
    Hi {name}, I can help you with ABC

The start_message will be the bot's response when /start command is sent from telegram.

How to run Telegram​

To run Telegram bot, you need to install the dependencies in the requirements.txt file and run app.py file.

cd telegram-chatbot-blueprint
pip install -r requirements.txt
python app.py

How to test Telegram​

You can test Telegram by sending a message to your bot. You can also use the Telegram API to send messages to your bot or use telegram messenger.

What you learned​

In this tutorial, you learned how to connect Sarufi to Telegram. You also learned how to configure and run Telegram.