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This project conveniently mirrors the Telegram bot API with the class Bot
.
Please note that Python3.5+ is needed to run async code.
Check requirements.txt for third party dependencies.
Check out help(Bot)
for detailed information.
davtelepot/data
folderconfig.py
contains configuration settings (e.g. certificate path, local_host, port etc.)passwords.py
contains secret information to be git-ignored (e.g. bot tokens)*.db
files are SQLite databases used by bots*.log
: log files (store log_file_name and errors_file_name in data/config.py
module)examples
folderThis folder contains full-commented and ready-to-run examples for simple davtelepot.bot Telegram bots.
import sys
from davtelepot.bot import Bot
from data.passwords import my_token, my_other_token
long_polling_bot = Bot(token=my_token, database_url='my_db')
webhook_bot = Bot(token=my_other_token, hostname='example.com',
certificate='path/to/certificate.pem',
database_url='my_other_db')
@long_polling_bot.command('/foo')
async def foo_command(bot, update, user_record):
return "Bar!"
@webhook_bot.command('/bar')
async def bar_command(bot, update, user_record):
return "Foo!"
exit_state = Bot.run(
local_host='127.0.0.5',
port=8552
)
sys.exit(exit_state)
Check out help(Bot)
for detailed information.
To run a bot in webhook modality, you have to provide a hostname
and certificate
at bot instantiation and a local_host
and port
when calling Bot.run
method.
https://{hostname}/webhook/{tokens}/
using certificate
for encryptionaiohttp.web.Application
server will listen on http://{local_host}:{port}
for updatesIt is therefore required a reverse proxy passing incoming requests to local_host.
Example of nginx reverse proxy serving this purpose
server {
listen 8553 ssl;
listen [::]:8553 ssl;
server_name example.com www.example.com;
location /telegram/ {
proxy_pass http://127.0.0.5:8552/;
}
ssl_certificate /path/to/fullchain.pem;
ssl_certificate_key /path/to/privkey.pem;
}
Example of python configuration file in this situation
# File data/config.py, gitignored and imported in main script
hostname = "https://www.example.com:8553/telegram"
certificate = "/path/to/fullchain.pem"
local_host = "127.0.0.5"
port = 8552
# Main script
from data.config import hostname, certificate, local_host, port
from data.passwords import bot_token
from davtelepot.bot import Bot
my_bot = Bot(
token=bot_token,
hostname=hostname,
certificate=certificate
)
# ...
Bot.run(
local_host=local_host,
port=port
)
FAQs
Telegram bot API mirroring class, featuring dataset-powered SQLite databases.
We found that davtelepot demonstrated a healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released less than a year ago. It has 1 open source maintainer collaborating on the project.
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