Documentation

The full documentation is at https://django-telegram-bot.readthedocs.org.

Telegram API documentation at https://core.telegram.org/bots/api

Quickstart

Install django-telegram-bot:

pip install django-telegram-bot

Add telegrambot and rest_framework to your INSTALLED_APPS, and run:

$ python manage.py migrate

After creating a bot in Telegram Platform, create at least one bot with django admin. Token is the only required field. You may need to provided public key certificate for your server. https://core.telegram.org/bots/self-signed Heroku has https and ssl by default so it is a good option if you dont want to deal with that.

Add webhook url to your urlpatterns:

url(r'^telegrambot/', include('telegrambot.urls', namespace="telegrambot")

Define whe file where commands will be defined in urlpatterns variable, analogue to django urls and ROOT_URLCONF:

TELEGRAM_BOT_HANDLERS_CONF = "app.handlers"

Set bot commands handlers is very easy just as defining urls in django. Module with urlpatterns that list different handlers. You can regex directly or use shortcuts like command or unknown_command

urlpatterns = [command('start', StartView.as_command_view()),
           command('author', AuthorCommandView.as_command_view()),
           command('author_inverse', AuthorInverseListView.as_command_view()),
           command('author_query', login_required(AuthorCommandQueryView.as_command_view())),
           unknown_command(UnknownView.as_command_view()),
           regex(r'author_(?P<name>\w+)', AuthorName.as_command_view()),
          ]

To set the webhook for telegram you need django.contrib.sites installed, SITE_ID configured in settings and with it correct value in the DB. The webhook for each bot is set when a Bot is saved and enabled field is set to true.

Bot views responses with Telegram messages to the user who send the command with a text message and keyboard. Compound with a context and a template. The way it is handled is analogue to Django views. Visits docs for more details https://django-telegram-bot.readthedocs.org/usage.html

Features

• Multiple bots

• Message handling definition.

• Authentication

• Text responses and keyboards.

• Media messages not supported.

• Only Markup parse mode.

Running Tests

Does the code actually work?

source <YOURVIRTUALENV>/bin/activate
(myenv) $ pip install -r requirements/test.txt
(myenv) $ make test
(myenv) $ make test-all

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