SimpleBot

Simple Telegram images bot - works out of the box.

A good starting point for your Telegram bots and Go beginners.

SimpleBot is written with Golang programming language and uses the Telegram Bot API package under the hood.

The step-by-step tutorial of creating this bot will be available soon.

The quick-start guide on a local machine:

Download release archive and unpack

• Linux: simplebot-linux-amd64-*.zip
• Windows: simplebot-windows-amd64-*.zip
• Mac intel: simplebot-darwin-amd64-*.zip
• Mac M-1, M-2: simplebot-darwin-arm64-*.zip

Register your bot in Telegram and get your bot token 9876543210:SomeDummyTokenFromBotFatherTelegram

Starting on Linux and Mac

• Navigate to the unpacked bot folder, and start

./simplebot-linux-amd64 -token 9876543210:SomeDummyTokenFromBotFatherTelegram -debug

• This command will start locally your telegram bot in debug mode
• Type in Telegram the name of your bot and enjoy using it!

Starting on Windows (tutorial soon)

• Open your command line and type

./simplebot-windows-amd64.exe -token 9876543210:SomeDummyTokenFromBotFatherTelegram -debug

• Type in Telegram the name of your bot and enjoy using it!

Deploy on server in webhook mode

• Prepare your Telegram bot to be used in webhook mode in Telegram
• Unpack simplebot-linux-amd64-*.zip on server
• Prepare NGINX (Apache) to be used with SimpleBot as proxy servers
• Prepare Nginx to work serve https, and correctly local proxy to the SimpleBot port.
• Navigate to the SimpleBot folder and start your bot

./simplebot-linux-amd64 \
-token 9876543210:SomeDummyTokenFromBotFatherTelegram \
-webhook example.com

• This command will start your bot in webhook mode on https://example.com/ address
• Use systemd or supervisorctl service to start you bot on system start-up.

Start on server in webhook mode with custom port and path

./simplebot-linux-amd64 \
-token 9876543210:SomeDummyTokenFromBotFatherTelegram \
-webhook example.com \
-path /some_path \
-port :8085

This command will start your bot in webhook mode on custom address https://example.com/some_path

On custom port :8085