Laravel Telegram Bot API Wrapper

This package is a simple Laravel wrapper for the Official Telegram Bot API.

Installation

composer require aglipanci/telegrambot

Configurations

Env

In order for the Telegram Bot to work you need to add the following values to your .env file:

TELEGRAMBOT_API_KEY=api-key-here
TELEGRAMBOT_USERNAME=bot-username-here
TELEGRAMBOT_WEBHOOK_URL=webhook-url-here

Config

To publish the package configuration file, execute the following artisan command:

php artisan vendor:publish --provider="AgliPanci\TelegramBot\TelegramBotServiceProvider"

The main Telegram class from Longman\TelegramBot\Telegram will be available as a facade through AgliPanci\TelegramBot\Facades\Telegram and all the original methods can be called statically from everywhere. For example:

use \AgliPanci\TelegramBot\Facades\Telegram;
use Longman\TelegramBot\Entities\Update;
use Longman\TelegramBot\Telegram as TelegramBot

Telegram::setUpdateFilter(function (Update $update, TelegramBot $telegram, &$reason = 'Update denied by update_filter') {
    $user_id = $update->getMessage()->getFrom()->getId();
    if ($user_id === 428) {
        return true;
    }

    $reason = "Invalid user with ID {$user_id}";
    return false;
});

Webhook Route

On your web.php or api.php add the following line:

Route::telegrambot('telegram');

If you are using the package route and controller you don't need to populate TELEGRAMBOT_WEBHOOK_URL.

Setting Webhook

After populating .env file with the API credentials and webhook URL you need to execute the following command to setup the Webhook URL:

php artisan telegram:set:webhook

Now you are ready to process requests by the Telegram Bot.

Commands

Defaults

The default path for the commands it's Bot/Commands insider your App directory. That can be changed in the telegrambot.php by changing the commands_dir key.

'commands_dir' => app_path('Bot/Commands')

Generating Commands

You can generate classes for your commands using the artisan command:

php artisan telegram:make:command SomethingCommand

This will generate the command structure on the specified command directory (the default is App/Bot/Commands). After generating the command the system will be ready to process /something from your users.

For more details on how the Official Telegram Bot API works please read their official documentation.