Telegram Bot Tutorial | Part Two

Bot Script and User Interaction To try out BobBot for yourself, head over to telegram.me/BobRossBot Last Time In the last post, I covered creating the bot in Telegram and setting up the webhook. In this post we’ll look at getting a script at the other end of that webhook and having your bot interact with the user. BobBot.php Our Bot is going to wait for a user to say /Bob, and then reply with a nugget of wisdom from Bob Ross....

October 31, 2015 · 3 min

Telegram Bot Tutorial | Part One

APIs and Webhooks To try out BobBot for yourself, head over to telegram.me/BobRossBot Intro Recently my friends and I migrated from Hangouts to Telegram for a multitude of reasons, but the most exciting one for me was the bot API. I’ve always wanted to put a bot into out chat for any number of reasons, and telegram finally offered me that opportunity. However, when I went to look over the API docs and the bot examples, I came away stumped....

October 31, 2015 · 6 min