Say hello to the Telegram Bot template! Built on the grammY framework and hosted by the Cyclic serverless platform.
Try it out now! \@CyclicDemoBot
Make sure that you have the following programs installed on your own local machine.
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Grab your Telegram bot's API token by sending a message to \@BotFather.
Add that API token to your Cyclic deployment's environment variables.
Set the NODE_ENV
environment variable to production
.
Connect your Telegram bot to your server by sending the following HTTP request using your terminal:
export TELEGRAM_API_TOKEN=... # YOUR TELEGRAM API TOKEN
export TELEGRAM_WEBHOOK_URL=... # YOUR CYCLIC DEPLOYMENT URL
curl "https://api.telegram.org/bot$TELEGRAM_API_TOKEN/setWebhook?url=$TELEGRAM_WEBHOOK_URL"
git clone https://github.com/eludadev/telegram-bot && cd telegram-bot
.env
and add the following line:
TELEGRAM_TOKEN=... # YOUR TELEGRAM API TOKEN
yarn
yarn dev
Note This feature is also known as Inline Queries.