PyConHK2017-Chatbot-Tutorial
Introduction
It's a simple telegram chatbot tutorial sharing on PyCon HK 2017.
Installation
$ mkdir venv
$ virtualenv venv
$ source venv/bin/activate
$ pip install -r requirements.txt
This tutoial is using python-telegram-bot this library with Python3.5.
And, most importantly, please create a telegram account first if you don't have.
Project Objective
Make a simple paper-rock-scissor game with chatbot with a single user
How do I create a bot?
Just talk to BotFather(@BotFather) and follow a few simple steps. Once you've created a bot and received your authorization token, head down to the Bot API manual to see what you can teach your bot to do.
Use the /newbot command to create a new bot. The BotFather will ask you for a name and username, then generate an authorization token for your new bot.
The name of your bot is displayed in contact details and elsewhere.
The Username is a short name, to be used in mentions and telegram.me links. Usernames are 5-32 characters long and are case insensitive, but may only include Latin characters, numbers, and underscores. Your bot's username must end in ‘bot’, e.g. ‘tetris_bot’ or ‘TetrisBot’.
The token is a string along the lines of 110201543:AAHdqTcvCH1vGWJxfSeofSAs0K5PALDsaw that is required to authorize the bot and send requests to the Bot API.