Introduction

Bots are special Telegram accounts designed to handle messages automatically. Users can interact with bots by sending them command messages in private or group chats. These accounts serve as an interface for code running somewhere on your server.

Features

• Full Telegram Bot API 4.8 support
• Telegram Payment Platform
• HTML5 Games
• Inline mode
• Incredibly fast
• Firebase/Glitch/Heroku/AWS λ/Whatever ready
• http/https/fastify/Connect.js/express.js compatible webhooks
• Easy to extend
• TypeScript typings

Installation

$ npm install telegraf

or using yarn:

$ yarn add telegraf

Resources

• Developer docs
• Community chat
• Community chat (Russian)

Examples

const { Telegraf } = require('telegraf')

const bot = new Telegraf(process.env.BOT_TOKEN)
bot.start((ctx) => ctx.reply('Welcome!'))
bot.help((ctx) => ctx.reply('Send me a sticker'))
bot.on('sticker', (ctx) => ctx.reply('👍'))
bot.hears('hi', (ctx) => ctx.reply('Hey there'))
bot.launch()

const { Telegraf } = require('telegraf')

const bot = new Telegraf(process.env.BOT_TOKEN)
bot.command('oldschool', (ctx) => ctx.reply('Hello'))
bot.command('modern', ({ reply }) => reply('Yo'))
bot.command('hipster', Telegraf.reply('λ'))
bot.launch()

There's some cool examples too.