telegram-menu 0.2.5

A python library to generate navigation menus using Telegram Bot API.

telegram_menu package

A python library to generate navigation menus using Telegram Bot API.

Base classes MenuMessage and AppMessage help defining
applications buttons to navigate in a message tree.

Features:

• Menu navigation using tree structure, unlimited depth
• Support for sending pictures, notifications, and polls
• Session manager when multiple users connect to the same bot
• Automatic deletion of messages when configurable timer has expired
• Integration of markdown format + emojis

Here is an example of navigation with menus and inline menus:

Installation

pip install telegram_menu

Getting Started

You first need to create a Telegram bot, then you can refer to sample code in tests\test_connection.py to run a complete use-case.

Following code block creates a Hello, World! message:

from telegram_menu import BaseMessage, TelegramMenuSession

API_KEY = "put_your_telegram_bot_api_key_here"

class StartMessage(BaseMessage):
    """Start menu, create all app sub-menus."""

    LABEL = "start"

    def __init__(self, navigation: NavigationHandler) -> None:
        """Init StartMessage class."""
        super().__init__(navigation, StartMessage.LABEL)

    def update(self) -> str:
        """Update message content."""
        return "Hello, world!"

TelegramMenuSession(API_KEY).start(StartMessage)

You can add any button in StartMessage, using self.add_button() method:

# 'run_and_notify' function executes an action and return a string as Telegram notification.
self.add_button(label="Action", callback=self.run_and_notify)

# 'new_menu_app' is a class derived from MenuMessage or AppMessage, which will generate a new menu or a message.
self.add_button(label="NewMenu", callback=new_menu_app)

An application message can contain several inlined buttons. The behavior is similar to MenuMessage buttons.

# 'get_content' function generates some text to display, eventually with markdown formatting
self.add_button(label="Display content", callback=self.get_content, btype=ButtonType.MESSAGE)

# 'get_picture' function returns the path of a picture to display in Telegram
self.add_button(label="Show picture", callback=self.get_picture, btype=ButtonType.PICTURE)

# new buttons can be added to the 'keyboard' property of the message instance too.
# next poll message will get items to display from function 'get_playlists_arg', and run 'select_playlist' when 
# the poll button is selected, identified with emoji 'closed_book'
poll_button = MenuButton(
    label=emojize("closed_book"), callback=self.select_playlist, btype=ButtonType.POLL, args=self.get_playlists_arg()
)
self.keyboard.append(poll_button)

Structure

Classes in package telegram_menu are stored in 2 python files:

• navigation.py: main interface, menu and message generation and management
• models.py: menu and message models, classes definition

Following class diagram describes all public interfaces: