A just for fun Telegram Bot.

We are using a webhook to implement this bot. Deployment is currently targeted to Heroku.

1. Help command /help
2. Say hi and the bot will reply.
3. Laugh like hahaha and the bot will reply.

This bot can be added to group chats.

• Linux (tested in Ubuntu)
  • Should be easy to adapt to MacOS, mainly other ngrok binary.
• curl
• jq

Use ngrok for local webhook testing.

You must set the following env vars for the ngrok related scripts to work:

export NGROK_AUTH_TOKEN=<ngrok-auth-token>
export PORT=8443

We are using dotenv to load environment variables.
You must to set the following environment variables in .env

BOT_TOKEN=<your-bot-token>
DEBUG='telegraf:*'
URL=https://1234567890.ngrok.io # Auto-set by `ngrok-start.sh`

• Start ngrok: ./ngrok-start.sh
• Run npm run start-local
  • This will read the ngrok URL from the local ngrok API

Telegram Bot API Telegraf ngrok