Telegram bot tutprial

Hey everyone, I have developed this repositry so that you can learn how to create your Telegram bot and connect it to Openai GPT-3 and Dall-E 2. This bot will reply to text messages and generate image from text.

Youtube

I have recorded a quick video on the setup of this chat-bot, in case you want to replicate the work, you can watch it here.

What you will need

There are couple of things that you need before you get started following this repository.

• OpenAI API key, since it is open to all, you can create an account here and access the key.
• You need a telegram bot API key as well, you can get it with interacting with Botfather on Telegeram here. Alternatively, you can one of my video on how to create a Telegram bor here.
• API requesting application like Postman, Insomnia, etc.
• NGROK for local testing.
• Account with GitHub and Render for deployment

How to use it

To replicate the work of this repository and run it locally, you need to follow these steps:

• create a .env file inside the root directory, create these environmental variables:

  TELEGRAM_API_KEY=YOURAPIKEY
  OPENAI_API_KEY=YOURAPIKEY
  

• create a virtual environment and activate it before installing the packages
• install all the required dependencies from the requirements.txt file

  pip install -r requirements.txt

• run the server with either of the following commands

  python run.py

  gunicorn run:app

Telegram API help

You can get help on the Telegram API on their official page here, however, the APIs to follow this repository are as under:

• Set webhook

  • POST request
  • JSON BODY

  {
      "url": "YOURURL/telegram"
  }

  • url https://api.telegram.org/botYOURAPIKEY/setWebhook

• Send message

  • POST request
  • JSON BODY

  {
      "chat_id": 582346178,
      "text": "From insomania"
  }

  • url https://api.telegram.org/botYOURAPIKEY/sendMessage

• Send photo

  • POST request
  • JSON BODY

  {
      "chat_id": 582346178,
      "photo": "YOUR IMAGE URL",
      "caption": "Test from Insomnia"
  }

  • url https://api.telegram.org/botYOURAPIKEY/sendPhoto

About me

I am Raj Kapadia, I am passionate about AI/ML/DL and their use in different domains, I also love to build chatbots using Google Dialogflow ES/CX, I have backend development experience with Python[Flask], and NodeJS[Express] For any work, you can reach out to me at...

• LinkedIn
• Fiverr
• Upwork
• Youtube