TelegramBot

This repo guides you through a simple echo Telegram bot example.

Local Setup

1. Register bot by talking to @BotFather, and save the token
2. Try out using this token to get updates at https://api.telegram.org/bot`TOKEN`/getUpdates
3. Try sending a message to https://api.telegram.org/bot`TOKEN`/sendMessage?chat_id=`ID`&text=`TEXT`
4. Get the code: git clone https://github.com/akashin/TelegramBot.git
5. Install dependencies: pip install -r requirements.txt
6. Run the bot with: python bot.py

Heroku Setup

Complete the steps from the local setup and then:

1. Register on https://heroku.com
2. Install heroku command line interface https://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/heroku-cli
3. Create new Heroku application for our bot:

heroku login
heroku create --region eu appname # create app in eu region, common regions: eu, us
heroku buildpacks:set heroku/python # set python buildpack
git push heroku master # deploy app to heroku
heroku config:set TELEGRAM_TOKEN=123456789:AAABBBCCCDDDEEEFFFGGGHHHIIIJJJKKKLL # set config vars
heroku logs --tail # If for some reason it’s not working, check the logs

This should automatically start your bot on Heroku.

Materials

• Good tutorial: http://djangostars.com/blog/how-to-create-and-deploy-a-telegram-bot/
• Useful Heroku commands: https://github.com/Kylmakalle/heroku-telegram-bot