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Examples
Bashtbot webhook example
Webhooks
Bashbot default mode is to poll Telegram server for updates but Telegram offers also webhook as a more efficient method to deliver updates. If your server is reachable from the Internet you can use the webhook method described here.
Setup Apache webhook
Prerequisite: An Apache webserver with a valid SLL certificate chain and php enabled.
Prepare Apache to forward webhook to Bashbot:
- install bashbot as described in Bashbot Installation
- create file
data-bot-bash/webhook-fifo - run
bashbot.sh initto setup bashbot to run as same user as Apache (e.g. www) - go to apache web root and create directory
telegram/<your_bot_token> - copy all files from
examples/webhookto new directory and change to it - write bashbot installation directory as first line to file
BASHBOT_HOME - execute
php index.php
Every call to webhook https://<yourservername>/telegram/<your_bot_token>/ will execute
index.php and write received JSON to file data-bot-bash/webhook-fifo.
E.g. the URL https://<yourservername>/telegram/<your_bot_token>/?json={"test":"me"}
will append {"test":"me"} to the file data-bot-bash/webhook-fifo.
Now your Apache is ready to forward data to Bashbot.
Simple update processing
To configure simple update processing delete file data-bot-bash/webhook-fifo after your webhook is working.
Every webhook call now forwards incoming Telegram updates to the named pipe data-bot-bash/webhook-fifo
and Bashbot poll them like polling Telegram server. This is much more efficient than polling Telegram server.
To switch from Simple processing to High traffic processing start bashbot as bashbot.sh start-hook.
Stop bashbot with bashbot.sh stop to switch back to Simple processing