Table of Contents

- Must have
- How to create a telegram bot
- Get started
- Installation
- Creating instance of bot
- Bot Actions
- sendMessage
- getUpdates
- getGroupIDs

Must have

Before you get start make sure you already have a telegram bot

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1. Access BotFather: Open the Telegram app and search for "@BotFather"
2. Start a conversation: Click "Start" to begin interacting with BotFather.
3. Create a new bot: Send the command "/newbot".
4. Provide details: Enter a name for your bot and a unique username that must end with "bot".
5. Receive your token: Once created, BotFather will provide you with your bot's access token, which is necessary to interact with your bot using code.

Get started

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Using npm:

``bash
$ npm install gl.telegram-bot
`

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You can use this bot instance to call its bot actions

`typescript
import TelegramBot from "gl.telegram-bot";

const botInstance = new TelegramBot('1234567:ASJHR24-93145uASJHF-ASDIRFJ3158');
`

Bot Actions

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> tip: to get channel the channel id you can enter the following url on your browser \
> https://api.telegram.org/bot$BOT_TOKEN/getUpdates \
>
> if your token is something like this: 123456-78910 \
> you should add bot as prefix and the ouput should be like this: bot123456-78910

This action sends a message to an individual group


`typescript
// send to 1 group id
botInstance.sendMessage('test message', '-100123456789');

// send to multiple groups
botInstance.sendMessage('test message', ['-100123456789', '-100987654321']);
`




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@return_type - object; \
It gets the recent updates on your bot

`typescript
const updates = await botInstance.getUpdates();

// this is
console.log(updates);
`

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@return_type - number[]; \
Basically, it uses getUpdates and then get all its channel id's

`typescript
const groupIDs = await botInstance.getGroupIDs();

// this is
console.log(updates);
``