A Telegram bot frontend for your Botica bots. This bot allows other bots to send information, ask for input, or request confirmation from human users via Telegram.

• This bot requires the TELEGRAM_BOT_TOKEN environment variable to function. Create a bot using the @BotFather bot in Telegram and get your token from there.

• If you want to persist subscribed users between runs, you must link the /app/.telegram-bot-data directory to your host machine.

Example configuration section to integrate this bot into a Botica environment:

  telegram:
    image: "botica-bot-telegram-frontend"
    lifecycle:
      type: reactive
    mount:
      - source: ".telegram-bot-data"
        target: "/app/.telegram-bot-data"
        createHostPath: true
    subscribe:
      - key: "user_interaction"
    instances:
      telegram:
        environment:
          - TELEGRAM_BOT_TOKEN=TOKEN

Sends a message to all subscribed Telegram users. For example:

await bot.publishOrder("Hello there!", "user_interaction", "notify_users");