A barebones Telegram bot, written in LSL.
To use this bot you will need, at a minimum, an API key from Telegram. See:
https://core.telegram.org/bots
...for how to get one.
This was mostly a proof of concept I made for myself because I wanted to see if I could do it. Turns out it's not nearly as bad as I'd feared, thanks to LSL's new JSON parser.
There's not a lot here to work with. This is just a framework to play with. There's no a lot of actual bot functionally here, other than being able to request basic stats for the region the in-world bot object is located in. There's also a really crude chat relay present as well, which was mostly used for testing.
Enjoy! Let me know if you do anything cool with it. :)
This script polls the Telegram API and doesn't work in webhook mode. There's no technical reason why LSL shouldn't be able to handle the incoming requests from Telegram via llRequestSecureURL(), other than Telegram refuses to talk to port tcp/12043. (Boo! Why Telegram, why??)
Since this is just a proof-of-concept I did for myself, I'm not offering any form of tech support. You can ask me if you have a question, but I can't promise I'll have time to answer. (I'm a very busy gal!)
Pull requests would be lovely if you find this useful and make it better!
The LSL code makes no attempt to deal with overlapping events. For example, if someone touches the bot object a bunch of times in a row, the value of sendMessageRequestId will be overwritten on each touch and cause errors to be returned to the owner when the ok message comes back from Telegram. I can think of a few ways to fix this, but I didn't implement any of them in this example. (Such as keeping track of messages in-flight in a list, or just not caring about the message IDs, etc.)
You can reach me two easy-ish ways:
- Twitter: @bunnyhalberd
- In-World: Bunny Halberd