@broid/telegram
v2.1.0
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Convert Telegram messages into Activity Streams 2 with Broid Integration
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Broid Telegram Integration
Broid Integrations is an open source project providing a suite of Activity Streams 2 libraries for unified communications among a vast number of communication platforms.
Connect your App to Multiple Messaging Channels with One OpenSource Language.
Message types supported
| Simple | Image | Video | Buttons | Location | Phone number | |:------:|:-----:|:-----:|:-------:|:--------:|:------------:| | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | | |
Location, Phone number are platform limitations.
Getting started
Install
npm install --save @broid/telegram
Connect to Telegram
const BroidTelegram = require('@broid/telegram');
const telegram = new BroidTelegram({
token: "<api_key>",
webhookURL: "http://127.0.0.1",
http: {
host: "127.0.0.1",
port: 8080
}
});
telegram.connect()
.subscribe({
next: data => console.log(data),
error: err => console.error(`Something went wrong: ${err.message}`),
complete: () => console.log('complete'),
});
Telegram can also be used with your existing express setup.
const BroidTelegram = require('@broid/telegram');
const express = require("express");
const telegram = new BroidTelegram({
token: "<api_key>",
webhookURL: "http://127.0.0.1"
});
const app = express();
app.use("/telegram", telegram.getRouter());
telegram.connect()
.subscribe({
next: data => console.log(data),
error: err => console.error(`Something went wrong: ${err.message}`),
complete: () => console.log('complete'),
});
app.listen(8080);
Options available
| name | Type | default | Description |
| ---------------- |:--------:| :--------: | --------------------------|
| serviceID | string | random | Arbitrary identifier of the running instance |
| logLevel | string | info
| Can be : fatal
, error
, warn
, info
, debug
, trace
|
| token | string | | Your API Key |
| http | object | { "port": 8080, "http": "0.0.0.0", "webhookURL": "127.0.0.1" }
| WebServer options (host
, port
, webhookURL
) |
Receive a message
telegram.listen()
.subscribe({
next: data => console.log(`Received message: ${data}`),
error: err => console.error(`Something went wrong: ${err.message}`),
complete: () => console.log('complete'),
});
Buttons supported
| mediaType | Action types | Content of value property | | --------------------- |:-------------:| --------------------------| | text/html | redirect | URL to be opened in the built-in browser. | | | postback | Text of message which client will sent back as ordinary chat message. |
Post a message
To send a message, the format should use the broid-schemas.
const formatted_message = {
"@context": "https://www.w3.org/ns/activitystreams",
"type": "Create",
"generator": {
"id": "f6e92eb6-f69e-4eae-8158-06613461cf3a",
"type": "Service",
"name": "telegram"
},
"object": {
"type": "Note",
"content": "hello world"
},
"to": {
"type": "Person",
"id": "43418004"
}
};
telegram.send(formatted_message)
.then(() => console.log("ok"))
.catch(err => console.error(err));
Examples of messages
You can find examples of sent and received messages at Broid-Schemas.
Contributing to Broid
See CONTRIBUTE.md
Copyright & License
Copyright (c) 2016-2017 Broid.ai
This project is licensed under the AGPL 3, which can be found here.