Hello! Sorry for disturbing you, but I don't understand how to use the Webhook in my project. Can you explain me how to use it? Can you give an example?

As I saw on the source, this implementations uses getUpdates to retrieve data.
There is a way to use a webhook instead?

I think when users block the bot and we try to send message to him
throw exception
StatusCodeError: 403 - [object Object]
at new StatusCodeError (C:\Users\parsa\node_modules\telegram-bot-api\node_modules\request-promise\lib\errors.js:26:15)
at Request.RP$callback [as _callback] (C:\Users\parsa\node_modules\telegram-bot-api\node_modules\request-promise\lib\rp.js:68:32)
at Request.self.callback (C:\Users\parsa\node_modules\request\request.js:188:22)
at emitTwo (events.js:106:13)
at Request.emit (events.js:191:7)
at Request. (C:\Users\parsa\node_modules\request\request.js:1171:10)
at emitOne (events.js:96:13)
at Request.emit (events.js:188:7)
at IncomingMessage. (C:\Users\parsa\node_modules\request\request.js:1091:12)
at IncomingMessage.g (events.js:291:16)
at emitNone (events.js:91:20)
at IncomingMessage.emit (events.js:185:7)
at endReadableNT (_stream_readable.js:974:12)
at _combinedTickCallback (internal/process/next_tick.js:80:11)
at process._tickCallback (internal/process/next_tick.js:104:9)
how to handle it?

in example write "username", in param "user"
this leads to inconvenience in understanding the error

Hello, I tried almost 40 times to send custom keyboard layout, but it didn't worked.
Apperantly I'm doing something wrong, did you try to send custom keyboard layout?

I need to send photo from buffer. Example:

api.on("message", function(msg) {
	if (msg.text == "/photo") {
		var canvas = new Canvas(512, 512);
		var ctx = canvas.getContext("2d");

		ctx.fillStyle = "#fff";
		ctx.fillRect(0, 0, 512, 512);

		ctx.fillStyle = "#000";
		ctx.fillRect(128, 128, 512 - 128, 512 - 128);

		api.sendPhoto({
			chat_id: msg.chat.id,
			caption: "...",
			photo: canvas.toBuffer()
		});
	}
});

Can it be done on current version?

My bot used to ask question with an inline keyboard markup. Whenever you click a button, it emits the callback_query. At some point I realized that it keeps firing this event even when I don't click the button.
I end up commenting out almost everything, my bot's app looks like this now:

'use strict';

const config = require('./config');
const TelegramBot = require('node-telegram-bot-api');
const token = config.tg_token;
const bot = new TelegramBot(token, {polling: true});
const debug = require('debug')('my-bot');

bot.on('callback_query', cbData => {
  debug("bot.on callback_query", cbData);
});

And when I start the app, it keeps firing this callback every 10-ish seconds. Any ideas why and how to debug that weird behavior?

Hi, I have a problem with this module,
if in a group have one more bot, the bot can't work, why? ><
help me, please ><

thank you

I noticed that Github gives a security vulnerability (CVE-2018-3721) warning because of an outdated lodash version (3.10). This version is included because it's a dependency of request-promise 1.0.2 which this package still depends on.

Are there breaking changes which stop us from bumping the request-promise version?

Once the bot is created it runs forever and there is no way to stop it. Please add this ability.

caption in sendAudio does not insert in telegram, only audio upload on Telegram!!!

api.sendAudio({
    chat_id: message.from.id,   
   performer: 'my performer',
   title: 'my title',
 caption: 'maycaption',    
  audio: 'https://www.soundhelix.com/examples/mp3/SoundHelix-Song-1.mp3'
})
.then(function(data)
{
    console.log(util.inspect(data, false, null));
});

This is my code for test answerInlineQuery:

onInlineQuery = (query) => {
  console.log("===> onInlineQuery: ", stringify(query));

  var
  post = data.posts['test'].messages[0],
  results = [{
    type: "photo",
    id: 1,
    photo_file_id: post.photo.id,
    title: "title1",
    description: "description1",
    caption: "caption1",
    input_message_content: {
      message_text: "message_text1"
    }
  }]
  ;

  console.log("results: " + stringify(results));

  bot.answerInlineQuery({
    inline_query_id: query.id,
    results: results,
    cache_time: 1,
    is_personal: false,
    next_offset: ""
  }, (err, data) => {
    console.log("answerInlineQueryCallback: " + stringify({err: err, query: query}));
  })
  .then((data) => {
    console.log("answerInlineQuerySuccess: " + stringify(data))
  })
  .catch((err) => {
    console.log("answerInlineQueryError: " + stringify({err: err, query: query}));
  })
  ;
}

And this is console error

===> onInlineQuery:  {
  "id": "250780611822216560",
  "from": {
    "id": 58389411,
    "first_name": "Ali",
    "last_name": "Mihandoost",
    "username": "Al1MD"
  },
  "query": "",
  "offset": ""
}
results: [
  {
    "type": "photo",
    "id": 1,
    "photo_file_id": "AgADBAADQagxG3Y-EwLpdVrRB_1FdXWoYzAABII7tf8pCsFbQ1gBAAEC",
    "title": "title1",
    "description": "description1",
    "caption": "caption1",
    "input_message_content": {
      "message_text": "message_text1"
    }
  }
]

[TelegramBot]: Failed to get updates from Telegram servers
_http_outgoing.js:443
    throw new TypeError('first argument must be a string or Buffer');
    ^

TypeError: first argument must be a string or Buffer
    at ClientRequest.OutgoingMessage.write (_http_outgoing.js:443:11)
    at Request.write (/Volumes/Repositories/metrofrq_bot/node_modules/telegram-bot-api/node_modules/request/request.js:1385:25)
    at FormData.ondata (stream.js:31:26)
    at emitOne (events.js:90:13)
    at FormData.emit (events.js:182:7)
    at FormData.CombinedStream.write (/Volumes/Repositories/metrofrq_bot/node_modules/telegram-bot-api/node_modules/combined-stream/lib/combined_stream.js:118:8)
    at FormData.CombinedStream._pipeNext (/Volumes/Repositories/metrofrq_bot/node_modules/telegram-bot-api/node_modules/combined-stream/lib/combined_stream.js:106:8)
    at FormData.CombinedStream._getNext (/Volumes/Repositories/metrofrq_bot/node_modules/telegram-bot-api/node_modules/combined-stream/lib/combined_stream.js:79:10)
    at FormData.CombinedStream._pipeNext (/Volumes/Repositories/metrofrq_bot/node_modules/telegram-bot-api/node_modules/combined-stream/lib/combined_stream.js:107:8)
    at FormData.CombinedStream._getNext (/Volumes/Repositories/metrofrq_bot/node_modules/telegram-bot-api/node_modules/combined-stream/lib/combined_stream.js:79:10)
    at FormData.CombinedStream._pipeNext (/Volumes/Repositories/metrofrq_bot/node_modules/telegram-bot-api/node_modules/combined-stream/lib/combined_stream.js:107:8)
    at FormData.<anonymous> (/Volumes/Repositories/metrofrq_bot/node_modules/telegram-bot-api/node_modules/combined-stream/lib/combined_stream.js:91:10)
    at FormData.<anonymous> (/Volumes/Repositories/metrofrq_bot/node_modules/telegram-bot-api/node_modules/form-data/lib/form_data.js:246:5)
    at FormData.CombinedStream._getNext (/Volumes/Repositories/metrofrq_bot/node_modules/telegram-bot-api/node_modules/combined-stream/lib/combined_stream.js:84:3)
    at FormData.CombinedStream._pipeNext (/Volumes/Repositories/metrofrq_bot/node_modules/telegram-bot-api/node_modules/combined-stream/lib/combined_stream.js:107:8)
    at FormData.CombinedStream._getNext (/Volumes/Repositories/metrofrq_bot/node_modules/telegram-bot-api/node_modules/combined-stream/lib/combined_stream.js:79:10)

When messages sent to bot are edited, the message property becomes edited_message, which causes the app to crash.

It is described in https://core.telegram.org/bots/api#update

Dear telegram-bot-api developers,

node-request has been deprecated. [1]. Thus we should use another lib to replace it.
Accoding to [2] we can use got.

[1] request/request#3142
[2] https://bugs.debian.org/958691

How about adding setting webhook to get updates by webhook?

What has happened? I cannot start the server, because of the error.

As far as I remember, I did npm update telegram-bot-api just before.

Is this the problem of telegram-bot-api?

Hi! I tried this lib back in 2015 and everything was fine. Today I'm getting this error while trying to send a message:

[TelegramBot]: Failed to get updates from Telegram servers

I have created this repo to help you figure out what's wrong:
https://github.com/riseremi/telegram-bot-api-issue

Hi.
Is it possible to run bot over ipv6?
When I run application on node, I receive this error message:

Error: RequestError: Error: connect ETIMEDOUT 149.154.167.220:443
at /var/www/telegram.bot/node_modules/telegram-bot-api/lib/telegram-bot.js:1686:19

I know, many telegram's ipv4 IPs blocked now. I have ipv6 address on server. If I ping -4 api.telegram.org, server cannot resolv address. If I ping -6 api.telegram.org - it works fine.

From the examples folder, there is no example of how to get a file sent to the Bot by a user. Can you add the example? Thanks.

I have a webp format images which I tried sending through sendPhoto(), sendSticker and sendDocument as well which doesn't work at all. How can I send webp photos using your module?

Hi,
trying to send a video using API, but i get an error 400 (or "host invalid") since i updated from 1.3 -> 2.0.0

code :

let api = new telegram({
        token: '****************************',
        updates: { 
            enabled: true
        }
});

const mp = new telegram.GetUpdateMessageProvider()

api.setMessageProvider(mp)
api.start()
.then(() => {
    console.log('API is started')
    api.sendVideo({
        chat_id: **********,
        video: "./temp/wdZGjR9m0D.mp4"
    }).then(() => { 
        //Fs.unlinkSync(output)
    })
})
.catch(console.err)

result :

{
  code: 400,
  description: 'Bad Request: URL host is empty',
  body: {
    ok: false,
    error_code: 400,
    description: 'Bad Request: URL host is empty'
  }
}

On lines 583 and 584.

Should be
var args = {
chat_id: params.chat_id,
latitude: params.latitude,
longitude: params.longitude
};

/Users/g66k/Code/JavaScript/node_modules/bluebird/js/release/async.js:49
fn = function () { throw arg; };
^
StatusCodeError: 400 - {"ok":false,"error_code":400,"description":"Bad Request: wrong user_id specified"}
at new StatusCodeError (/Users/g66k/Code/JavaScript/node_modules/request-promise-core/lib/errors.js:32:15)
at Request.plumbing.callback (/Users/g66k/Code/JavaScript/node_modules/request-promise-core/lib/plumbing.js:104:33)
at Request.RP$callback [as _callback] (/Users/g66k/Code/JavaScript/node_modules/request-promise-core/lib/plumbing.js:46:31)
at Request.self.callback (/Users/g66k/Code/JavaScript/node_modules/request/request.js:185:22)
at Request.emit (events.js:310:20)
at Request. (/Users/g66k/Code/JavaScript/node_modules/request/request.js:1161:10)
at Request.emit (events.js:310:20)
at IncomingMessage. (/Users/g66k/Code/JavaScript/node_modules/request/request.js:1083:12)
at Object.onceWrapper (events.js:416:28)
at IncomingMessage.emit (events.js:322:22)
at endReadableNT (_stream_readable.js:1187:12)
at processTicksAndRejections (internal/process/task_queues.js:84:21) {

hi dear friend ! would you give me a sample code for telegram bot ?!
i want a code for this :
when a client send a message to bot , for example

 "hi"

the bot send him/her :

"hello dear friend"

i wrote some code but i didn't see any message from robot !

@mast thank you :*

Hi
I don't know how to use getUpdates method in this package

Possible to include the Google custom search api for searching the image and then send it with photo?

Hi folk,

When I use the method "sendContact" throws this error:

http_outgoing.js:447 throw new TypeError('first argument must be a string or Buffer'); ^

TypeError: first argument must be a string or Buffer at ClientRequest.OutgoingMessage.write (_http_outgoing.js:447:11) at Request.write (/home/ubuntu/workspace/node_modules/request/request.js:1407:27) at FormData.ondata (stream.js:31:26) at emitOne (events.js:77:13) at FormData.emit (events.js:169:7) at FormData.CombinedStream.write (/home/ubuntu/workspace/node_modules/combined-stream/lib/combined_stream.js:118:8) at FormData.CombinedStream._pipeNext (/home/ubuntu/workspace/node_modules/combined-stream/lib/combined_stream.js:106:8) at FormData.CombinedStream._getNext (/home/ubuntu/workspace/node_modules/combined-stream/lib/combined_stream.js:79:10) at FormData.CombinedStream._pipeNext (/home/ubuntu/workspace/node_modules/combined-stream/lib/combined_stream.js:107:8) at FormData.CombinedStream._getNext (/home/ubuntu/workspace/node_modules/combined-stream/lib/combined_stream.js:79:10) at FormData.CombinedStream._pipeNext (/home/ubuntu/workspace/node_modules/combined-stream/lib/combined_stream.js:107:8) at FormData.<anonymous> (/home/ubuntu/workspace/node_modules/combined-stream/lib/combined_stream.js:91:10) at FormData.<anonymous> (/home/ubuntu/workspace/node_modules/form-data/lib/form_data.js:246:5) stream/lib/combined_stream.js:84:3) at FormData.CombinedStream._pipeNext (/home/ubuntu/workspace/node_modules/combined-stream/lib/combined_stream.js:107:8) at FormData.CombinedStream._getNext (/home/ubuntu/workspace/node_modules/combined-stream/lib/combined_stream.js:79:10)

Do yo know what happend?

how to make this library work with socks/socks5/TOR ?

I'm writing a bot where I download Pictures and Videos and send them over Telegram. To do that with the current API I need to save the HTTP Stream to a file and then let the API read that file. With a small change to those functions I'm able to pass them a stream and they send it happily.

As can I see, at this moment multipart file uploads doesn't supported in node-rest-client (aacerox/node-rest-client#73). Does there any other way to sendPhoto from bot? 😕

I want to rewrite code to es6 with babeljs.
Make a pull or own repo ?

Hi,
i need to fetch chat from a channel as i doing right?
api.getChat({
chat_id: "@altcoins_signal"
}, function(message)
{
// New incoming callback query
console.log(message);
});

What about promises? For example - https://github.com/dfilatov/vow

Can I send pull request ?

hi. i can get personal chat message, but i can`t in group chat.

how can i get group chat message?

Bot closed at inlineQuery

[TelegramBot]: Failed to get updates from Telegram servers

Error sent from .catch of internalGetUpdates

Description

Adding reply_markup key to sendMessage method's object argument
throws an error.

Am I doing wrong or is it a bug?

Package version

telegram-bot-api: ^1.3.4

Thanks in advance.

Code

import telegramBot = require('telegram-bot-api');

botApi = new telegramBot({
        token: process.env['BOT_TOKEN'],
});

await this.botApi.sendMessage({
                chat_id: user.chatId,
                text: message.toTemplate(),
                parse_mode: 'Markdown',
                reply_markup: { //<-- adding this key causes error
                    inline_keyboard: [
                        [
                            {
                                text: 'test',
                                callback_data: 'testCallback',
                            },
                        ],
                    ],
                },
            });

Stacktrace

TypeError: source.on is not a function
    at Function.DelayedStream.create (E:\Projects\github-watchman\node_modules\delayed-stream\lib\delayed_stream.js:33:10)
    at FormData.CombinedStream.append (E:\Projects\github-watchman\node_modules\combined-stream\lib\combined_stream.js:45:37)
    at FormData.append (E:\Projects\github-watchman\node_modules\form-data\lib\form_data.js:74:3)
    at appendFormValue (E:\Projects\github-watchman\node_modules\request\request.js:326:21)
    at Request.init (E:\Projects\github-watchman\node_modules\request\request.js:337:11)
    at Request.RP$initInterceptor [as init] (E:\Projects\github-watchman\node_modules\request-promise-core\configure\request2.js:45:29)
    at new Request (E:\Projects\github-watchman\node_modules\request\request.js:127:8)
    at request (E:\Projects\github-watchman\node_modules\request\index.js:53:10)
    at E:\Projects\github-watchman\node_modules\request\index.js:100:12
    at E:\Projects\github-watchman\node_modules\telegram-bot-api\lib\telegram-bot.js:253:13
    at Promise._execute (E:\Projects\github-watchman\node_modules\bluebird\js\release\debuggability.js:384:9)
    at Promise._resolveFromExecutor (E:\Projects\github-watchman\node_modules\bluebird\js\release\promise.js:518:18)
    at new Promise (E:\Projects\github-watchman\node_modules\bluebird\js\release\promise.js:103:10)
    at TelegramApi.sendMessage (E:\Projects\github-watchman\node_modules\telegram-bot-api\lib\telegram-bot.js:251:16)
    at TelegramBot.<anonymous> (E:\Projects\github-watchman\src\bot\telegram\telegram_bot.ts:36:31)
    at Generator.next (<anonymous>)
    at E:\Projects\github-watchman\src\bot\telegram\telegram_bot.ts:27:71
    at new Promise (<anonymous>)
    at __awaiter (E:\Projects\github-watchman\src\bot\telegram\telegram_bot.ts:23:12)
    at TelegramBot.sendMessage (E:\Projects\github-watchman\src\bot\telegram\telegram_bot.ts:67:16)
    at E:\Projects\github-watchman\src\telegram_api\telegrammessage_mapper.ts:20:23
    at Generator.next (<anonymous>)

@mast

I would like to have my bot within a group/or channel and let it send messages to the group or channel.

var api = new telegram({ token: 'MY_TOKEN_HERE', updates: { enabled: true } }); api.sendMessage({ chat_id:, text: 'test TEXT' })

Right now the bot is sending the messages to the bot itself but not in the group where I added it as an admin. I also already change the privacy settings of the bot so it can see all messages.

Closing issue - this was the wrong location.

It would be much more convenient if you develop a debug mode which allows logging errors from https://github.com/mast/telegram-bot-api/blob/master/lib/telegram-bot.js#L161

Pretty self explanatory, api detailed here.

As mentioned in title, it skips some parameters.

Sending a photo with a filepath leads to a Photo can't be empty error.

    api.sendMessage({chat_id: chatID, text: image}, function(err, data)
    {
    if(err)
       log(err.description, 'Telegram-Server');
    });

When bot gets this issue it does not react on any further commands. The simple restart of process helps.

Investigation: Have checked the code and figure out that it is trying to repeat the request later but it still fails

[TelegramBot]: Failed to get updates from Telegram servers
{ RequestError: Error: socket hang up
    at new RequestError (/root/workspace/node-app/node_modules/request-promise-core/lib/errors.js:14:15)
    at Request.plumbing.callback (/root/workspace/velas-god/node_modules/request-promise-core/lib/plumbing.js:87:29)
    at Request.RP$callback [as _callback] (/root/workspace/node-app/node_modules/request-promise-core/lib/plumbing.js:46:31)
    at self.callback (/root/workspace/node-app/node_modules/request/request.js:185:22)
    at emitOne (events.js:116:13)
    at Request.emit (events.js:211:7)
    at Request.onRequestError (/root/workspace/node-app/node_modules/request/request.js:877:8)
    at emitOne (events.js:116:13)
    at ClientRequest.emit (events.js:211:7)
    at TLSSocket.socketErrorListener (_http_client.js:387:9)
    at emitOne (events.js:116:13)
    at TLSSocket.emit (events.js:211:7)
    at emitErrorNT (internal/streams/destroy.js:64:8)
    at _combinedTickCallback (internal/process/next_tick.js:138:11)
    at process._tickCallback (internal/process/next_tick.js:180:9)
  name: 'RequestError',
  message: 'Error: socket hang up',
  cause:
   { Error: socket hang up
    at TLSSocket.onHangUp (_tls_wrap.js:1137:19)
    at Object.onceWrapper (events.js:313:30)
    at emitNone (events.js:111:20)
    at TLSSocket.emit (events.js:208:7)
    at endReadableNT (_stream_readable.js:1064:12)
    at _combinedTickCallback (internal/process/next_tick.js:138:11)
    at process._tickCallback (internal/process/next_tick.js:180:9)
     code: 'ECONNRESET',
     path: null,
     host: 'api.telegram.org',
     port: 443,
     localAddress: undefined },
  error:
   { Error: socket hang up
    at TLSSocket.onHangUp (_tls_wrap.js:1137:19)
    at Object.onceWrapper (events.js:313:30)
    at emitNone (events.js:111:20)
    at TLSSocket.emit (events.js:208:7)
    at endReadableNT (_stream_readable.js:1064:12)
    at _combinedTickCallback (internal/process/next_tick.js:138:11)
    at process._tickCallback (internal/process/next_tick.js:180:9)
     code: 'ECONNRESET',
     path: null,
     host: 'api.telegram.org',
     port: 443,
     localAddress: undefined },
  options:
   { proxy: null,
     method: 'GET',
     json: true,
     formData: { timeout: 0, offset: 764361189, limit: 50 },
     uri: 'https://api.telegram.org/..../getUpdates',
     callback: [Function: RP$callback],
     transform: undefined,
     simple: true,
     resolveWithFullResponse: false,
     transform2xxOnly: false },
  response: undefined }

Hello! sendPhoto does not support parse_mode correct? It doesnt seem to do anything with either 'html' or 'parse_node'

const response = await api.sendPhoto({
    chat_id,
    photo,
    caption,
    parse_mode: 'Markdown'
  });
  return response;

Great API by the way. Cheers!

when trying to send a keyboard in sendMessage this error comes up:

source.on('error', function() {});

TypeError: undefined is not a function at Function.DelayedStream.create

hi. thanks to previous question.. it save huge of time. :D
i have some problem.

i got user id from message : message.from.id

and send message to user like this code..

let user_id = message.from.id;
let message = "how are you?";
api.sendMesssage({
    chat_id : user_id,
    text : message
}).then(..........)

if target user opened chat with this bot, message sent successfully.
but user has not talked to this bot, send process fail with 400 error.
error code and description below.

error_code: 400, description: 'Bad Request: chat not found'

is there any problem? how can i fix this issue?

Hi. I'm trying to change Keyboard after sending a photo, this is my code:

...
api.sendPhoto(
{
chat_id: message.chat.id,
caption: '',
photo: 'img/help.png',
reply_markup: {"keyboard" : [['help more!'],['cancel']]}
}, function(err, data)
{
...

and this is the console output:
{}

can you give me an example about syntax of "reply_markup", please?

thank you and excuse me for my bad English