Creating a basic custom bot with Telegram and Python

After you have created a telegram bot using @botfather, retrieve its API key and paste it at the beginning of bot.py. That's all you need to do get started.

To install the project dependencies, run:

chmod +x install.sh
./install.sh

or execute:

# install virtualenv
pip3 install virtualenv
# create a virtual environment folder
python3 -m venv env
# activate env and install dependencies
source env/bin/activate
pip install python-telegram-bot -U --pre

To start the bot, run:

chmod +x run.sh
./run.sh

or execute:

source env/bin/activate
python3 -i main.py
source deactivate

This should start a basic customizable bot able to:

• respond to user commands by running CommandHandler functions.
• Utilize command arguments to execute code using context.args
• process messages based on their type by running MessageHandler functions.

For more information about this repo take look at the article here.