Telegram Bot API TypeScript

This library is a full wrapper of Telegram Bot API. It's main purpose is to provide support for all available API calls. Last supported version of Telegram Bot API currently is Bot API 5.7.

Table of Contents

• Usage
  • Events
  • Event Subscription
• Available Types
• Available Methods

Usage

Main class you need to get access to all available API calls (methods) of Telegram Bot API is a TelegramBotAPI class.

import { TelegramBotAPI } from 'telegram-bot-api-ts';

After that you need to pass your bot token to the constructor. It is required, because, all Telegram Bot API calls need to be authorized with bot token. You can learn more about that in the official document.

const BOT_TOKEN = "123456:ABC-DEF1234ghIkl-zyx57W2v1u123ew11";

const bot = new TelegramBotAPI(BOT_TOKEN);

Also there is some predefined classes for bot developping:

• TelegramBotAPI

  This is a base class for all other predefined bot classes and main wrapper around Telegram Bot API.

• TelegramUpdateEmmiterBot

  This is a base class for building your custom bot classes that emmits events on updates received from Telegram.

• TelegramPollingBot

  This bot based on TelegramUpdateEmmiterBot, so it will continuously poll updates from Telegram and pass all updates to your code.

• TelegramUpdateListener

  This is a standalone class that can store your event listener functions. This can be passed to any TelegramUpdateEmmiterBot.

Events

Your bot can listen for events emmited when there is some update from Telegram. For now there are 14 types of updates:

• message - New incoming message of any kind - text, photo, sticker, etc.
• edited_message - Message that is known to the bot was edited
• channel_post - New incoming channel post of any kind - text, photo, sticker, etc.
• edited_channel_post - Channel post that is known to the bot was edited
• inline_query - New incomming inline query
• chosen_inline_query
• callback_query
• shipping_query
• pre_checkout_query
• poll
• poll_answer
• my_chat_member
• chat_member
• chat_join_request

Event Subscription

Available Types

Available Methods