tglib

TDLib (Telegram Database library) bindings for Node.js

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Getting started

1. Build the binary (https://github.com/tdlib/td#building)
2. npm i -S tglib

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APIs

tglib provide some useful methods that makes your Telegram app development easier.

Authorizing an user

const client = new Client({
  apiId: 'YOUR_API_ID',
  apiHash: 'YOUR_API_HASH',
  auth: {
    type: 'user',
    value: 'YOUR_PHONE_NUMBER',
  },
})

Authorizing a bot

const client = new Client({
  apiId: 'YOUR_API_ID',
  apiHash: 'YOUR_API_HASH',
  auth: {
    type: 'bot',
    value: 'YOUR_BOT_TOKEN',
  },
})

Low Level APIs

client.ready

This promise is used for initializing tglib client and connect with Telegram.

await client.ready

client.on(event, callback) -> Void

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This API is provided by tglib, you can use this API to attach an event listener for iterating updates.

client.on('_update', console.log.bind(console))
client.on('_error', console.error.bind(console))

client._send(query) -> Promise -> Object

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This API is provided by TDLib, you can use this API to send asynchronous message to Telegram.

await client._send({
  '@type': 'sendMessage',
  'chat_id': -123456789,
  'input_message_content': {
    '@type': 'inputMessageText',
    'text': {
      '@type': 'formattedText',
      'text': '👻',
    },
  },
})

client._execute(query) -> Promise -> Object

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This API is provided by TDLib, you can use this API to execute synchronous action to Telegram.

await client._execute({
  '@type': 'getTextEntities',
  'text': '@telegram /test_command https://telegram.org telegram.me',
})

client._destroy() -> Promise -> Void

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This API is provided by TDLib, you can use this API to destroy the client.

await client._destroy()

client.fetch(query) -> Promise -> Object

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This API is provided by tglib, you can use this API to send asynchronous message to Telegram and receive response.

const chats = await client.fetch({
  '@type': 'getChats',
  'offset_order': '9223372036854775807',
  'offset_chat_id': 0,
  'limit': 100,
})

High Level APIs

tglib provides a collection of APIs that designed for ease of use and handiness. These APIs are located under client.tg property.

client.tg.sendTextMessage(chatId, text, options = {}) -> Promise -> Void

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This API is provided by tglib, you can use this API to send message to a chat. If the options argument is specified, the function will combine your options with its default.

await client.sendTextMessage('123456789', 'Hello *World*', {
  'parse_mode': 'markdown',
  'disable_notification': true,
  'clear_draft': false,
})

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Requirements

• TDLib binary

If you planning to build TDLib for Windows, please see here for more information.

• Node.js 10 preferred (minimum >= 9.0.0)

Note: If you are using Node.js 9.x, you may encounter a warning message Warning: N-API is an experimental feature and could change at any time., this can be suppressed by upgrading to version 10.

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License

tglib uses the same license as TDLib. See tdlib/td for more information.