moleculer-telegram-bot

moleculer-telegram-bot

Send Messages, Photos, and Documents to Telegram using Telegram Bot API with node-telegram-bot-api module.

Install

npm install moleculer-telegram-bot --save

Usage

Before use the example below, please set the TELEGRAM_TOKEN environment variables and optional TELEGRAM_TARGET for default target.

const { ServiceBroker } = require('moleculer');
const TelegramService = require('moleculer-telegram-bot');

// Create broker
const broker = new ServiceBroker({ logger: console });

// Load my service
broker.createService({
    name: 'telegram',
    mixins: [TelegramService()]
});

// Start server
broker.start().then(() => {
  broker
    .call('telegram.sendMessage', { message: 'Hello Telegram!' })
    .then(res => console.log('Telegram message sent.'))
    .catch(console.error);
});

Settings

Property	Type	Default	Description
telegramToken	String	required	Telegram Bot API Token. Visit How do I create a bot?.
telegramTarget	String | Number	-	Telegram chat id as default target

Actions

sendMessage

Send a Telegram Message

Parameters

Property	Type	Default	Description
message	String	required	Message text
to	String | Number	-	Message target (required if default target not set)
parse_mode	String	-	Optional parse mode
disable_web_page_preview	Boolean	-	Optional disable web page preview
disable_notification	Boolean	-	Optional disable notification
reply_to_message_id	Number	-	Optional reply to message id
reply_markup	Any	-	Optional reply markup

sendPhoto

Send a Telegram Photo using URL.

Parameters

Property	Type	Default	Description
photo	String	required	Photo URL
to	String | Number	-	Photo target (required if default target not set)
parse_mode	String	-	Optional parse mode
caption	String	-	Optional photo caption
disable_notification	Boolean	-	Optional disable notification
reply_to_message_id	Number	-	Optional reply to message id
reply_markup	Any	-	Optional reply markup
fileOpts.filename	String	-	Optional filename
fileOpts.contentType	String	-	Optional file content type

sendDocument

Send a Telegram Document using URL.

Parameters

Property	Type	Default	Description
doc	String	required	Document URL
to	String | Number	-	Document target (required if default target not set)
parse_mode	String	-	Optional parse mode
caption	String	-	Optional document caption
disable_notification	Boolean	-	Optional disable notification
reply_to_message_id	Number	-	Optional reply to message id
reply_markup	Any	-	Optional reply markup
fileOpts.filename	String	-	Optional filename
fileOpts.contentType	String	-	Optional file content type

Methods

sendMessage

Send a message

Parameters

Property	Type	Default	Description
to	String | Number	-	Message target
message	String	-	Body of the message
opts	TelegramBot.SendMessageOptions	-	Send message options

sendPhoto

Send a photo

Parameters

Property	Type	Default	Description
to	String | Number	-	Message target
photo	String | Stream | Buffer	-	Photo to send
opts	TelegramBot.SendPhotoOptions	-	Send photo options
fileOpts	TelegramBot.fileOpts	-	Send photo file options

sendDocument

Send a document

Parameters

Property	Type	Default	Description
to	String | Number	-	Message target
doc	String | Stream | Buffer	-	Document to send
opts	TelegramBot.SendDocumentOptions	-	Send document options
fileOpts	TelegramBot.fileOpts	-	Send document file options

Test

npm test

In development with watching

npm run ci

License

The project is available under the MIT license.