sendMessage( chat_id = chat_id, text = response, reply_to_message_id = msg_id) # now just send the message back # notice how we specify the chat and the msg we reply to bot. # here we call our super AI response = get_response( text)

message_id # Telegram understands UTF-8, so encode text for unicode compatibility text = update. id # get the message id to be able to reply to this specific message msg_id = update. # get the chat_id to be able to respond to the same user chat_id = update. # retrieve the message in JSON and then transform it to Telegram object update = telegram. format( TOKEN), methods =) def respond(): ''' here the route function respond to a url which is basically /'.

You will need to ask him using the / prefix to start a command, once you start typing it will autocomplete itself, the command you need is /newbot, which will take you to the flow of creating your bot, the bot will prompt you for a name and username for the bot (the username has to be unique), then it will respone with a message like so Before we startīefore we dive into coding, let's finish the easy stuff, we need to ask telegram to create a new bot on the platform, it's a fairly simple process, you can do so in your telegram app(on windows/linux/android/ios/web) you need to go to botfather which is basically a bot himself that automate the process of creating your bot. In this tutorial you will learn how to make a telegram bot and deploy it on a heroku server, the bot will be up 24-7, and you can inject your own brain and responses into it. Telegram bot tutorial using python and flask