Golang Telegram BOT with AWS lambda and Heroku PostgresDB

Telegram BOT boilerplate is a bot with heroku PostgresDB and simple PostgresDB connection and deploying to AWS lambda possibility.

Installation

Initialize serverless with the command below:

serverless

Download golang dependencies

go mod download

Create .env file with required attributes:

cp .env.dist .env

cp .env.local.dist .env.local

Usage

Main settings

API_TOKEN - bot token from created bot with BotFather in the Telegram

HEROKU_IS_ACTIVE - configuration for switching between heroku and simple PostgresDB

HEROKU_API_KEY - secret key from Heroku account (on the site: Profile -> Account Settings -> API Key)

HEROKU_POSTGRES_ID - PostgresDB ID

In order to check all addons from heroku and hastily check Postgres ID run command below:

heroku addons

Other information here Heroku PostgreSQL

Run

Local usage

go run applocal/main.go

Deploy to AWS lambda

At first set up credentials from Identity and Access Management (IAM) user.

export AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY=<your_secret_key>

export AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID=<your_access_key>

Build application

make build

or immediately deploy it

make deploy