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title: 'Setting a webhook for the bot'
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A webhook lets your bot to answer commands issued from telegram chats and buttons inside messages

### through an artisan command

```shell
php artisan telegraph:set-webhook {bot_id}
```

the `bot_id` argument is mandatory if you have created more than one bot

### programmatically

A webhook can be created programmatically for a bot by calling its `registerWebhook()` method

```php
/** @var TelegraphBot $bot */
$bot->registerWebhook()->send();
```