telegram-cli-wrapper

Nodejs wrapper that communicates with the Telegram API.

This repository has become obsolete as Telegram has released the bot api https://core.telegram.org/bots/api. This is an easier way to programmatically interact with Telegram.

Underlyingly makes use of telegram-cli (https://github.com/vysheng/tg).

##Installation

1. To run it locally run the following command:

git clone --recursive git@github.com:tincann/telegram-cli-wrapper.git

The --recursive argument is important, as it will also install the submodules of tg.

2. Afterwards install all dependencies by running:

sudo apt-get install libreadline-dev libconfig-dev libssl-dev libevent-dev make

3. Then run:

npm install

This will compile the code in the included tg submodule into the tg/bin directory.

##Running it the first time

While in the root of this project, first run the binary in the tg/bin directory by doing:

./tg/bin/telegram-cli -k tg/server.pub

Then you should set up access to a telegram account by following the steps in the cli. Please refer to the README of the cli (https://github.com/vysheng/tg).

After this is done you can use the TelegramAPI object in the lib directory. Usage example:

var tgapi = require('./lib/telegram-api.js');

tgapi.connect(function(connection){
    connection.on('message', function(message){
        console.log('message:', message);
    });
});

##Windows

Haven't tested this for Windows (yet)