telegram.bot {telegram.bot}

Develop a Telegram Bot with R

Description

Provides a pure interface for the Telegram Bot API. In addition to the pure API implementation, it features a number of tools to make the development of Telegram bots with R easy and straightforward, providing an easy-to-use interface that takes some work off the programmer.

Details

In this page you can learn how to build a Bot quickly with this package.

Main Classes

Updater

Package main class. This class, which employs the class Dispatcher, provides a front-end to class Bot to the programmer, so they can focus on coding the bot. Its purpose is to receive the updates from Telegram and to deliver them to said dispatcher.

Bot

This object represents a Telegram Bot.

Dispatcher

This class dispatches all kinds of updates to its registered handlers.

Handler

The base class for all update handlers.

Author(s)

Maintainer: Ernest Benedito [e-mail]

Other contributors:

• Chris Stefano [e-mail] [contributor]

See Also

Useful links:

• https://github.com/ebeneditos/telegram.bot

• Report bugs at https://github.com/ebeneditos/telegram.bot/issues

Examples

## Not run: 
library(telegram.bot)

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() # Send '/start' to the bot

## End(Not run)