Telepota - an actively maintained python3 wrapper for the telegram BOT API.

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Getting Started

Installation

pip install telepota --upgrade

easy_install telepota --upgrade

git clone https://github.com/codingsett/telepotacd telepotpython setup.py install

Usage

importsysimporttimeimporttelepotfromtelepot.loopimportMessageLoop#Namedtuple module contains different helper classes that help you pass the correct data required#by telegram bot apifromtelepot.namedtupleimportInlineKeyboardMarkup,InlineKeyboardButton#this function catches all 'normal' messages from the bot. There are other helper functions such#on_poll_data that catches all reponses from actions performed on a polldefon_chat_message(msg):#telepot glance method extracts some useful data that you may require in different sections.content_type,chat_type,chat_id=telepot.glance(msg)#keyboard made easily from a constructor class that we imported earlier.keyboard=InlineKeyboardMarkup(inline_keyboard=[                   [InlineKeyboardButton(text='Press me',callback_data='press')],               ])#This is how we send messagesbot.sendMessage(chat_id,'Use inline keyboard',reply_markup=keyboard)#catches all inline_queries from the bot. Go to the documentation to read more.defon_callback_query(msg):query_id,from_id,query_data=telepot.glance(msg,flavor='callback_query')print('Callback Query:',query_id,from_id,query_data)bot.answerCallbackQuery(query_id,text='Got it')TOKEN=sys.argv[1]# get token from command-line#we pass the token from botfather to the bot instance.bot=telepot.Bot(TOKEN)#Messageloop initiates polling for the bot.MessageLoop(bot, {'chat':on_chat_message,'callback_query':on_callback_query}).run_as_thread()print('Listening ...')#make sure the bot runs forever.while1:time.sleep(10)

Comparison

Roadmap

Contributing

License

Acknowledgements