start_polling {telegram.bot}

Start polling

Description

Starts polling updates from Telegram. You can stop the polling either by using the the interrupt R command in the session menu or with the stop_polling method.

Usage

start_polling(
  timeout = 10L,
  clean = FALSE,
  allowed_updates = NULL,
  verbose = FALSE
)

Arguments

timeout

(Optional). Passed to getUpdates. Default is 10.

clean

(Optional). Whether to clean any pending updates on Telegram servers before actually starting to poll. Default is FALSE.

allowed_updates

(Optional). Passed to getUpdates.

verbose

(Optional). If TRUE, prints status of the polling. Default is FALSE.

Examples

## Not run: 
# Start polling example
start <- function(bot, update) {
  bot$sendMessage(
    chat_id = update$message$chat_id,
    text = sprintf(
      "Hello %s!",
      update$message$from$first_name
    )
  )
}

updater <- Updater("TOKEN") + CommandHandler("start", start)

updater$start_polling(verbose = TRUE)

## End(Not run)