The final API call that we’ll try out in the browser is that used to send a message. Try sending a message to your Bot and visit that URL. If you this page you’ll get a JSON response of all the new messages sent to your Bot. The simplest way to retrieve messages sent to your Bot is through the getUpdates call: Finally, you specify the command that you want to send ( /getMe) which in this case just returns basic information about our Bot using JSON. You follow this with /bot to say that you want to send a command to your Bot, and immediately after you add your TOKEN to identify which bot you want to send the command to and to prove that you own it. The first part of the URL indicates that you want to communicate with the Telegram API ( ). Visit the following URL in your browser (substituting the TOKEN that you got before): The simplest command is one where you get information about your Bot. By visiting different URLs, you send different commands to your Bot. This means that the simplest way to interact with your Bot is through a web browser. You can control your Bot by sending HTTPS requests to Telegram. Take note of the token, as you’ll need it in the code that you are about to write. The token should look something like this:ġ23456:ABC-DEF1234ghIkl-zyx57W2v1u123ew11įor the rest of this tutorial, we’ll indicate where you need to put your token by using or just TOKEN. To create a new bot, send the following command to BotFather as a chat (exactly as if you were talking to another person on Telegram):Īfter doing so, BotFather will send you a “Congratulations” message, which will include a token. The former are simply text that you send as if you were sending a message to another person, while the latter are prefixed with a / character. Telegram bots can receive messages or commands. You can do so by talking to and following a few simple steps. Second, you’ll need to create a Telegram Bot in order to get an Access Token. So, let’s get started! Creating a Telegram Botįirst, you must have or create a Telegram account.
In this page you will learn how to build a Telegram Bot with R and the telegram.bot package, with the following sections: Build a Chatbot with R | An introduction to the Telegram Bot API and the telegram.bot package Build a Chatbot with R An introduction to the Telegram Bot API and the telegram.bot package View on GitHub Table of Contents
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