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Step 3: Basic Telegram bot

We now need to tell Kik or Telegram that we want to develop a bot for their platform (a.k.a. their app), otherwise users will not be able to find out bot in the app.

Step By Step

Tell Telegram you want to create a bot

  • On phone: Start Telegram.

  • On phone: Start chatting with the bot BotFather.

  • On phone: Answer BotFather's questions.

  • On phone: After a couple of questions you will get a message starting with "Done! Congratulations...". This message will contain your API key (i.e. the password for your bot).

  • On computer: Save the API key in a text file, for later use.

We're now ready to start developing our Telegram bot! Move on to the next step.

heroku apps:create
  • Open init_webhook.py and make sure the URL of your application name matches what is in the set_webhook call.
  • Store your Telegram bot credentials (i.e. the API key sent to you by BotFather) in your Heroku application by entering this command in your terminal:
heroku config:set TELEGRAM_BOT_APIKEY=your-bot-api-key --app NAME_OF_YOUR_HEROKU_APPLICATION
  • Re-deploy to Heroku using the same command as before:
heroku builds:create --app NAME_OF_YOUR_HEROKU_APPLICATION
heroku ps:scale web=1 --app NAME_OF_YOUR_HEROKU_APPLICATION
heroku open --app NAME_OF_YOUR_HEROKU_APPLICATION
  • Start chatting with your bot. You should now be able to find your bot in Telegram by searching for it using the name you sent to BotFather earlier.
  • Verify that it sends back everything you send to it.

A Closer Look

Want to know more about Telegram bots? Check out https://core.telegram.org/bots.

That is it, or maybe just the beginning!?

You now have a fully functional bot!

Next steps

In app/views.py there is a function called process_text. Use that to change the text and make the bot smarter.

If you want something to get you started you can try these ideas on chat bots.`

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