twx.botapi: Unofficial Telegram Bot API Library and Client
| contributions: | Please join https://github.com/datamachine/twx.botapi |
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| issues: | Please use https://github.com/datamachine/twx.botapi/issues |
| Python version supported: | 2.7, 3.0, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 3.4, 3.5b |
twx.botapi is a python interface for the Telegram bot API. It supports making synchronous and asynchronous calls and converts the response into a usable native python object.
Support for the MTProto API is in the works, but considered pre-alpha right now.
You can join our support chat at: https://telegram.me/twxapi
For stable:
pip install twx.botapi
For dev:
pip install -i https://testpypi.python.org/pypi twx.botapi
Documentation can be found at http://pythonhosted.org/twx.botapi/
from twx.botapi import TelegramBot, ReplyKeyboardMarkup
"""
Setup the bot
"""
bot = TelegramBot('<API TOKEN>')
bot.update_bot_info().wait()
print(bot.username)
"""
Send a message to a user
"""
user_id = int(<someuserid>)
result = bot.send_message(user_id, 'test message body').wait()
print(result)
"""
Get updates sent to the bot
"""
updates = bot.get_updates().wait()
for update in updates:
print(update)
"""
Use a custom keyboard
"""
keyboard = [
['7', '8', '9'],
['4', '5', '6'],
['1', '2', '3'],
['0']
]
reply_markup = ReplyKeyboardMarkup.create(keyboard)
bot.send_message(user_id, 'please enter a number', reply_markup=reply_markup).wait()