carbon-telegram-bot

Introduction

Telegram Bots can handle messages automatically. Users can interact with bots by sending messages in private or group chats that .

This package is intended to listen to Update messages received by your bot's server /post webhook. Then carbon-telegram-bot will listen to pre-formatted or code markdown and reply the chat message with a beautiful Carbon code snippet.

Installation

$ npm install carbon-telegram-bot

or using yarn:

$ yarn add carbon-telegram-bot

Triggering the bot

carbon-telegram-bot will always trigger when a message is sent in chat fomarted as code or pre-formated text as follows:

Markdown:
`code` and ```pre-formatted```

More information: Telegram markdown style

Implementation Examples

const express = require('express');
const { carbonBot } = require('carbon-telegram-bot');

const app = express();
app.use(express.json());

// first specify a url to receive incoming updates via a webhook
// (https://core.telegram.org/bots/api#setwebhook)
// then listen to the webhook endpoint that you specified
app.post('/', async (req, res) => {
  const { body } = req;
  try {
    await carbonBot(YOUR_BOT_TOKEN, body);
  } catch (error) {
    console.error(error);
  }
  res.send('message received in your chat');
});

app.listen(3000, () => {
  console.log('Example app listening on port 3000!');
});

Code snippet generated with above example:

import express from 'express';
import { carbonBot } from 'carbon-telegram-bot';

const app = express();
app.use(express.json());

// first specify a url to receive incoming updates via a webhook
// (https://core.telegram.org/bots/api#setwebhook)
// then listen to the webhook endpoint that you specified
app.post('/', async (req, res) => {
  const { body } = req;
  try {
    await carbonBot(YOUR_BOT_TOKEN, body);
  } catch (error) {
    console.error(error);
  }
  res.send('message received in your chat');
});

app.listen(3000, () => {
  console.log('Example app listening on port 3000!');
});

Code snippet generated with above example:

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