Laravel and Telegram bot

I'd like to build a Laravel app that would interact with Telegram (send messages to my clients, get messages from them, store them in database, etc). I'm a total noob in that so I would be very grateful if you could give me a link to a good tutorial.

LaryAI

2 years ago

Level 58

There are several packages available for Laravel that allow you to interact with Telegram bots. One popular package is called "irazasyed/telegram-bot-sdk". Here are the steps to get started:

Install the package via Composer:

composer require irazasyed/telegram-bot-sdk

Create a new Telegram bot by following the instructions on the Telegram website: https://core.telegram.org/bots#3-how-do-i-create-a-bot
Once you have created your bot, you will receive an API token. Copy this token and add it to your Laravel .env file:

TELEGRAM_BOT_TOKEN=your-bot-token-here

Create a new controller in your Laravel app to handle incoming messages from the Telegram bot. Here is an example controller that simply responds to any incoming message with "Hello!":

<?php

namespace App\Http\Controllers;

use Illuminate\Http\Request;
use Telegram\Bot\Laravel\Facades\Telegram;

class TelegramController extends Controller
{
    public function handle(Request $request)
    {
        $update = Telegram::commandsHandler(true);

        $message = $update->getMessage();
        $chat_id = $message->getChat()->getId();

        Telegram::sendMessage([
            'chat_id' => $chat_id,
            'text' => 'Hello!'
        ]);
    }
}

Add a new route to your Laravel app to handle incoming requests from the Telegram bot. Here is an example route that maps to the "handle" method in the controller:

Route::post('/telegram/webhook', 'TelegramController@handle');

Finally, set up the webhook for your Telegram bot by running the following command in your Laravel app:

php artisan telegram:webhook

This will register your Laravel app as the webhook URL for your Telegram bot. Now, any incoming messages to your bot will be sent to your Laravel app and handled by the "handle" method in the controller.

Note: This is just a basic example to get you started. You can customize the controller to handle different types of messages, store messages in a database, etc.

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tisuchi

2 years ago

Level 70

@anatoliyviktorovich If you don't want to build from sketch, you can use Laravel Notification Channels

It will be easy for your to implement by tweaking some config values.

For example, you can just utilize their code:

return TelegramMessage::create()
            ->to($notifiable->telegram_user_id)
            ->content("Foo and bar!!!")

Check more in the documentation: https://laravel-notification-channels.com/telegram/#usage

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polopolaw

2 months ago

Level 1

@anatoliyviktorovich for laravel and telgram exists very powerfull package hybridgram/tgbot-laravel Simple echo example

TelegramRouter::group(['for_bot' => 'main'], function (\HybridGram\Core\Routing\TelegramRouteBuilder $builder) {
    $builder->onTextMessage(function (TextMessageData $message) {
        $api = app(TelegramBotApi::class);
        $api->sendMessage($message->getChatId(), "Echo: {$message->text}");
    });
});

danielhe4rt

2 months ago

Level 13

I mean, you're the owner of the package itself... Just paste a snippet without justify the trade-offs is quite... hmm... weird?

I'll check your repo anyway. Thanks for your contrib.

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