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Node.js module to interact with official [Telegram Bot API](https://core.telegram.org/bots/api). A bot token is needed, to obtain one, talk to [@botfather](https://telegram.me/BotFather) and create a new bot.

```sh
npm install node-telegram-bot-api
```

```js
var TelegramBot = require('node-telegram-bot-api');

var token = 'YOUR_TELEGRAM_BOT_TOKEN';
// Setup polling way
var bot = new TelegramBot(token, {polling: true});

// Matches /echo [whatever]
bot.onText(/\/echo (.+)/, function (msg, match) {
  var fromId = msg.from.id;
  var resp = match[1];
  bot.sendMessage(fromId, resp);
});

// Any kind of message
bot.on('message', function (msg) {
  var chatId = msg.chat.id;
  // photo can be: a file path, a stream or a Telegram file_id
  var photo = 'cats.png';
  bot.sendPhoto(chatId, photo, {caption: 'Lovely kittens'});
});
```

There are some other examples on [examples](https://github.com/yagop/node-telegram-bot-api/tree/master/examples).

### Events
Every time  TelegramBot receives a message, it emits a `message`. Depending on which  [message](https://core.telegram.org/bots/api#message) was received, emits an event from this ones: `text`, `audio`, `document`, `photo`, `sticker`, `video`, `voice`, `contact`, `location`, `new_chat_participant`, `left_chat_participant`, `new_chat_title`, `new_chat_photo`, `delete_chat_photo`, `group_chat_created`. Its much better to listen a specific event rather than a `message` in order to stay safe from the content.
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### WebHooks

Telegram only supports HTTPS connections to WebHooks, in order to set a WebHook a private key file and public certificate must be used. Since August 29, 2015 Telegram supports self signed ones, to generate them:
```bash
# Our private cert will be key.pem, keep in private this file.
openssl genrsa -out key.pem 2048
# Our public certificate will be crt.pem
openssl req -new -sha256 -key key.pem -out crt.pem
```
Once they are generated, the `crt.pem` can be provided to `telegramBot.setWebHook(url, crt)` as `crt`.

## API Reference
{{#class name="TelegramBot"~}}
{{>header~}}
{{>body~}}
{{>member-index~}}
{{>members~}}
{{/class}}
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