Telegrambo Polling

Plugin for polling telegram service

Installation

You can install telegrambo-polling using npm:

npm install telegrambo-polling

Usage

// bot.js
import telegrambo from 'telegrambo';
import polling  from 'telegrambo-polling';

const bot = telegrambo(process.env.YOU_BOT_TOKEN);
const bot.polling = polling;

// Create echo bot
bot.on('message', (event) => {
  event.sendMessage({
    text: event.message.text
  });
});

Using with own options:

bot.poliing({
  timeout: 60,
  limit: 100,
  offset: 0,
  allowedUpdates: []
});

Or with handler:

bot.poliing({}, async (update, stop) => {
  // stop polling if messaege is "/stop"
  if (update.message.text === '/stop')
    stop();

  // Applaing update to bot
  else
    bot.setUpdate(update);
});

Also, you can skip options:

bot.poliing(async (update, stop) => {
  // update handler code
});

Returns:

• function: A callback function that get option object:

  • options (object, optional): Parameters for getUpdates method.

  • options.offset (number, optional): The initial offset value for the first API request. Default is 0.

  • options.limit (number, optional): The maximum number of updates to receive per API request. Default is 100.

  • options.timeout (number, optional): The timeout for each API request in seconds. Default is 60 seconds.

  • options.allowedUpdates (Array, optional): An array of allowed update types. Default is an empty array.

  • handler (function, optional): The handler function to call for each update. Has two arguments:

    • update (object): Object of update.

    • stop (function): Function for stop polling.