telegram-bot-server

Setup

Docker should be installed.

1. Get api_id and api_hash from telegram.
2. Get the bot_token from BotFather Telegram Bot.
3. Get the webhook_url from the Setup of your Bot Webhook Listener
4. Get the bot_server_base_url either using noip or ngrok.
5. Clone this repo

git clone https://github.com/chitranjan-gupta/telegram-bot-server

Build

1. Go to directory telegram-bot-server

cd telegram-bot-server

2. Build the docker image

docker build -t telegram .

Execute

1. Make GET request to https://api.telegram.org/bot[BOT_TOKEN]/logOut replace with bot_token to logout Telegram Cloud API Server.
2. Run the docker image

docker run -p 80:80 telegram --api-id [API_ID] --api-hash [API_HASH] --http-port 80

3. Make GET request to https://[BOT_SERVER_BASE_URL]/bot[BOT_TOKEN]/setWebhook?url=[WEBHOOK_URL]/&drop_pending_updates=true replace with bot_server_base_url, bot_token and webhook_url to set webhook url to get updates from the bot.

Migrate

If you want to migrate to different server you have to all the steps from above but before that you have do this

1. Make GET request to https://[BOT_SERVER_BASE_URL]/bot[BOT_TOKEN]/getWebhookInfo replace with bot_server_base_url and bot_token to check about your webhook url.
2. Make GET request to https://[BOT_SERVER_BASE_URL]/bot[BOT_TOKEN]/deleteWebhook?drop_pending_updates=true replace with bot_server_base_url and bot_token to remove your webhook url set previously.
3. Make GET request to https://[BOT_SERVER_BASE_URL]/bot[BOT_TOKEN]/close replace with bot_server_base_url and bot_token to stop the bot instance.
4. Make GET request to https://[BOT_SERVER_BASE_URL]/bot[BOT_TOKEN]/logOut replace with bot_server_base_url and bot_token to logout from Local API Server.

Sources:

1. https://core.telegram.org/bots/api
2. https://github.com/tdlib/telegram-bot-api
3. https://api.telegram.org/bot[BOT_TOKEN]/getWebhookInfo
4. https://api.telegram.org/bot[BOT_TOKEN]/setWebhook?url=[WEBHOOK_URL]&drop_pending_updates=true
5. https://api.telegram.org/bot[BOT_TOKEN]/deleteWebhook?drop_pending_updates=true
6. https://api.telegram.org/bot[BOT_TOKEN]/close