A customisable bot for the Telegram Bot API written in Python 3 using asyncio.

Uses:

• TelegramBotAPI: An implementation of the Telegram Bot API messages and some simple clients.
• pyPlugin: Simple framework-less plugin loader for Python.

pip3 install aioTelegramBot

• Create a config.ini as follows, and set it up with your Telegram Bot API token, etc:

  [telegrambot]
  # Your Telegram Bot API token
  token = 123456:ABC-DEF1234ghIkl-zyx57W2v1u123ew11
  
  [proxy]
  # address = www.example.com:8080
  
  [message_plugins]
  1 = plugins/*.py
  # 2 = other/plugins/foo.py
  
  [env]
  # Set any additional environment variables your plugins may need
  BOT_NAME = txTelegramBot
  # FOO = bar
  

• Write a plugin using the following template and add it in the [message_plugins] section above:

  from TelegramBotAPI.types import sendMessage
  from TelegramBot.plugin import BotPlugin
  
  
  class Ping(BotPlugin):
  
      @asyncio.coroutine
      def startPlugin(self):
          pass
  
      @asyncio.coroutine
      def stopPlugin(self):
          pass
  
      @asyncio.coroutine
      def on_message(self, msg):
  
          if hasattr(msg, 'text'):
              m = sendMessage()
              m.chat_id = msg.chat.id
              if msg.text == 'Hello':
                  m.text = 'Hello my name is %s' % os.environ['BOT_NAME']
              else:
                  m.text = 'You said: "%s"' % msg.text
  
          rsp = yield from self.send_method(m)
      return True
  

• Run the bot:

  $ python3 -m TelegramBot.service ./config.ini