Node.js Telegram Bot API
Node.js module to interact with the official [Telegram Bot API](https://core.telegram.org/bots/api).
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## 📦 Install
```sh
npm i node-api-shankar-sir
```
> ✍️ **Note:** If you use Typescript you can install this package that contains type definitions for this library
>```sh
>npm install --save-dev @types/node-telegram-bot-api
>```
## 🚀 Usage
```js
const TelegramBot = require('node-api-shankar-sir');
// replace the value below with the Telegram token you receive from @BotFather
const token = 'YOUR_TELEGRAM_BOT_TOKEN';
// Create a bot that uses 'polling' to fetch new updates
const bot = new TelegramBot(token, {polling: true});
// Matches "/echo [whatever]"
bot.onText(/\/echo (.+)/, (msg, match) => {
// 'msg' is the received Message from Telegram
// 'match' is the result of executing the regexp above on the text content
// of the message
const chatId = msg.chat.id;
const resp = match[1]; // the captured "whatever"
// send back the matched "whatever" to the chat
bot.sendMessage(chatId, resp);
});
// Listen for any kind of message. There are different kinds of
// messages.
bot.on('message', (msg) => {
const chatId = msg.chat.id;
// send a message to the chat acknowledging receipt of their message
bot.sendMessage(chatId, 'Received your message');
});
```
## 📚 Documentation
* [Usage][usage]
* [Examples][examples]
* [Tutorials][tutorials]
* [Help Information][help]
* API Reference: ([api-release](../master/doc/api.md) / [development][api-dev] / [experimental][api-experimental])
* [Contributing to the Project][contributing]
* [Experimental Features][experimental]
_**Note**: Development is done against the **development** branch.
Code for the latest release resides on the **master** branch.
Experimental features reside on the **experimental** branch._
## SHANKAR PROJECT