telegram-inline-calendar

telegram-inline-calendar

Date and time picker and inline calendar for Node.js telegram bots.

📙 Description

Using this simple inline calendar you can allow your Telegram bot to ask dates.

Supported languages:

• English
• French
• Russian
• Spanish
• Italian
• German
• Turkish
• Indonesian
• Ukrainian
• Brazilian Portuguese (pt-br)

Supported Telegram bot libraries:

• Telegraf
• node-telegram-bot-api
• telebot
• grammY

📦 Install

There are two versions:

v1.x - if you are using CommonJS modules

npm i telegram-inline-calendar

v2.x - if you are using ES modules

npm i telegram-inline-calendar@ecmascript

✍️ Note: If you use Typescript you can install this package that contains type definitions for this library

npm install --save-dev telegram-inline-calendar-types

🎚️ Changelog (v1.x or v2.x)

🗺 API (v1.x or v2.x)

🖥️ Examples (v1.x or v2.x)

🚀 Usage

node-telegram-bot-api

CommonJS

const TOKEN = process.env.TELEGRAM_TOKEN || 'YOUR_TELEGRAM_BOT_TOKEN';

const TelegramBot = require('node-telegram-bot-api');
const Calendar = require('telegram-inline-calendar');
process.env.NTBA_FIX_319 = 1;
const bot = new TelegramBot(TOKEN, {polling: true});
const calendar = new Calendar(bot, {
    date_format: 'DD-MM-YYYY',
    language: 'en'
});


bot.onText(/\/start/, (msg) => calendar.startNavCalendar(msg));

bot.on("callback_query", (query) => {
    if (query.message.message_id == calendar.chats.get(query.message.chat.id)) {
        res = calendar.clickButtonCalendar(query);
        if (res !== -1) {
            bot.sendMessage(query.message.chat.id, "You selected: " + res);
        }
    }
});

ESM

const TOKEN = process.env.TELEGRAM_TOKEN || 'YOUR_TELEGRAM_BOT_TOKEN';

import TelegramBot from 'node-telegram-bot-api';
import {Calendar} from 'telegram-inline-calendar';
process.env.NTBA_FIX_319 = 1;
const bot = new TelegramBot(TOKEN, {polling: true});
const calendar = new Calendar(bot, {
    date_format: 'DD-MM-YYYY',
    language: 'en'
});


bot.onText(/\/start/, (msg) => calendar.startNavCalendar(msg));

bot.on("callback_query", (query) => {
    if (query.message.message_id == calendar.chats.get(query.message.chat.id)) {
        var res;
        res = calendar.clickButtonCalendar(query);
        if (res !== -1) {
            bot.sendMessage(query.message.chat.id, "You selected: " + res);
        }
    }
});

telegraf

CommonJS

const TOKEN = process.env.TELEGRAM_TOKEN || 'YOUR_TELEGRAM_BOT_TOKEN';

const {Telegraf} = require('telegraf');
const Calendar = require('telegram-inline-calendar');
const bot = new Telegraf(TOKEN);
const calendar = new Calendar(bot, {
    date_format: 'DD-MM-YYYY',
    language: 'en',
    bot_api: 'telegraf'
});

bot.start((ctx) => calendar.startNavCalendar(ctx.message));

bot.on("callback_query", (ctx) => {
    if (ctx.callbackQuery.message.message_id == calendar.chats.get(ctx.callbackQuery.message.chat.id)) {
        res = calendar.clickButtonCalendar(ctx.callbackQuery);
        if (res !== -1) {
            bot.telegram.sendMessage(ctx.callbackQuery.message.chat.id, "You selected: " + res);
        }
    }
});
bot.launch();
process.once('SIGINT', () => bot.stop('SIGINT'));
process.once('SIGTERM', () => bot.stop('SIGTERM'));

ESM

const TOKEN = process.env.TELEGRAM_TOKEN || 'YOUR_TELEGRAM_BOT_TOKEN';

import {Telegraf} from 'telegraf';
import {Calendar} from 'telegram-inline-calendar';
const bot = new Telegraf(TOKEN, {polling: true});
const calendar = new Calendar(bot, {
    date_format: 'DD-MM-YYYY',
    language: 'en',
    bot_api: 'telegraf'
});

bot.start((ctx) => calendar.startNavCalendar(ctx));

bot.on("callback_query", (ctx) => {
    if (ctx.callbackQuery.message.message_id == calendar.chats.get(ctx.callbackQuery.message.chat.id)) {
        var res;
        res = calendar.clickButtonCalendar(ctx);
        if (res !== -1) {
            ctx.reply("You selected: " + res);
        }
    }
});
bot.launch();
process.once('SIGINT', () => bot.stop('SIGINT'));
process.once('SIGTERM', () => bot.stop('SIGTERM'));

telebot

CommonJS

const TOKEN = process.env.TELEGRAM_TOKEN || 'YOUR_TELEGRAM_BOT_TOKEN';

const Telebot = require('telebot');
const Calendar = require('telegram-inline-calendar');
const bot = new Telebot(TOKEN);
const calendar = new Calendar(bot, {
    date_format: 'DD-MM-YYYY',
    language: 'en',
    bot_api: 'telebot'
});


bot.on('/start', (msg) => calendar.startNavCalendar(msg));

bot.on("callbackQuery", (query) => {
    if (query.message.message_id == calendar.chats.get(query.message.chat.id)) {
        res = calendar.clickButtonCalendar(query);
        if (res !== -1) {
            bot.sendMessage(query.message.chat.id, "You selected: " + res);
        }
    }
});
bot.connect();

ESM

const TOKEN = process.env.TELEGRAM_TOKEN || 'YOUR_TELEGRAM_BOT_TOKEN';

import Telebot from 'telebot';
import {Calendar} from 'telegram-inline-calendar';
const bot = new Telebot(TOKEN, {polling: true});
const calendar = new Calendar(bot, {
    date_format: 'DD-MM-YYYY',
    language: 'en',
    bot_api: 'telebot'
});

bot.on('/start', (msg) => calendar.startNavCalendar(msg));

bot.on("callbackQuery", (query) => {
    if (query.message.message_id == calendar.chats.get(query.message.chat.id)) {
        var res;
        res = calendar.clickButtonCalendar(query);
        if (res !== -1) {
            bot.sendMessage(query.message.chat.id, "You selected: " + res);
        }
    }
});
bot.connect();

grammY

CommonJS

const TOKEN = process.env.TELEGRAM_TOKEN || 'YOUR_TELEGRAM_BOT_TOKEN';

const { Bot } = require('grammy');
const Calendar = require('telegram-inline-calendar');
const bot = new Bot(TOKEN);
const calendar = new Calendar(bot, {
    date_format: 'DD-MM-YYYY',
    language: 'en',
    bot_api: 'grammy'
});

bot.command('start', ctx => calendar.startNavCalendar(ctx.msg))

bot.on("callback_query:data", async (ctx) => {
    if (ctx.msg.message_id === calendar.chats.get(ctx.chat.id)) {
        res = calendar.clickButtonCalendar(ctx.callbackQuery);
        if (res !== -1) {
            await ctx.reply("You selected: " + res);
        }
    }
});
bot.start();

ESM

const TOKEN = process.env.TELEGRAM_TOKEN || 'YOUR_TELEGRAM_BOT_TOKEN';

import { Bot } from 'grammy';
import {Calendar} from 'telegram-inline-calendar';
const bot = new Bot(TOKEN, {polling: true});
const calendar = new Calendar(bot, {
    date_format: 'DD-MM-YYYY',
    language: 'en',
    bot_api: 'grammy'
});

bot.command('start', ctx => calendar.startNavCalendar(ctx))

bot.on("callback_query:data", (ctx) => {
    if (ctx.msg.message_id == calendar.chats.get(ctx.chat.id)) {
        var res;
        res = calendar.clickButtonCalendar(ctx);
        if (res !== -1) {
            ctx.reply("You selected: " + res);
        }
    }
});
bot.start();

⚙️ Default options

{
    date_format: 'YYYY-MM-DD',                     //Datetime result format
    language: 'en',                                //Language (en/es/de/es/fr/it/tr/id/uk/pt-br)
    bot_api: 'node-telegram-bot-api',              //Telegram bot library
    close_calendar: true,                          //Close calendar after date selection
    start_week_day: 0,                             //First day of the week(Sunday - `0`, Monday - `1`, Tuesday - `2` and so on)
    time_selector_mod: false,                      //Enable time selection after a date is selected.
    time_range: "00:00-23:59",                     //Allowed time range in "HH:mm-HH:mm" format
    time_step: "30m",                              //Time step in the format "<Time step><m | h>"
    start_date: false,                             //Minimum date of the calendar in the format "YYYY-MM-DD" or "YYYY-MM-DD HH:mm" or "now"
    stop_date: false,                              //Maximum date of the calendar in the format "YYYY-MM-DD" or "YYYY-MM-DD HH:mm" or "now"
    custom_start_msg: false,                       //Text of the message sent with the calendar/time selector
    lock_date: false,                              //Enable blocked dates list
    lock_datetime: false,                          //Enable list of blocked dates and times
    user_lang_select: false,                       //Ability to select the user's language
    slip_years: false                              //Number of years to skip (1 < `skip_years` < 10)
}

License

The MIT License (MIT)

Copyright © 2022-present Dmitry Vyazin