Mrs. Moneypenny

Reddit post: http://www.reddit.com/r/Telegram/comments/3b1pwl/create_your_own_telegram_bot_stepbystep/

Instructions

For a description of the Bot API, see this page: https://core.telegram.org/bots/api

1. Download Google App Engine SDK for Python from https://cloud.google.com/appengine/downloads and install it.

2. Click the File menu, choose Add Existing Application... and browse to the folder with the app.yaml and main.py file.

3. The project ID should appear as a row at the Name column.

   

4. Click Deploy, enter your Google credentials, and your app should be installed to Google's servers.

5. Open your Telegram client and send the message /start to your bot. (type @your-bot-username at the search field to initiate the conversation)

6. You can, for example, send what time to the bot and the bot will reply you. Try sending /image as well. Mission completed!

To customize the bot, edit the main.py