Telegram is a popular instant messaging service that prides itself on security. It has all of the features you would expect from a modern chat platform, including chatbots: software-based agents that you can program to read and respond to other users’ messages.
Setup Your Bot’s Telegram Profile
To set up a new bot profile, log in to your Telegram account and start a conversation with the BotFather (@BotFather), an official account that allows you to create and manage bots. In that conversation, enter the /newbot command.
The BotFather will ask you to choose a display name and username for your bot. The username has to end in “bot” and must be unique. In our example, we’ve settled on the display name SampleName and username SampleNameBot.
Once you’ve landed on a valid username, the BotFather will automatically register your bot and reply with a token for the Telegram API, unique to that bot. Make sure not to share your token with anyone.
Note: Add a bot to channel or group and make bot as Admin
Sending Message: send a message to group or channel:
$botToken = <token>;
$chat_id = <group or channel name>;
$message = <message>;
$bot_url = "https://api.telegram.org/bot$botToken/";
$url = $bot_url."sendMessage?chat_id=".$chat_id."&text=".urlencode($message);
file_get_contents($url);
Sending Photo: send an photo with caption to group or channel:
$botToken = <token>;
$chat_id = <group or channel name>;
$message = <message>;
$bot_url = "https://api.telegram.org/bot$botToken/";
$post_fields = array('chat_id' => $chat_id,
'caption' => <caption_text>,
'photo' => <photo_url>
);
$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, array(
"Content-Type:multipart/form-data"
));
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $post_fields);
$output = curl_exec($ch);
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