telegram-bot-bash/doc/2_usage.md
2019-04-11 14:08:14 +02:00

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Make your own Bot

All Commands for the Bot are in the commands.sh file (this should ease upgrades of the bot core). Here you find some examples how to process messages and send out text.

Once you're done editing start the Bot with ./bashbot.sh start. If some thing doesn't work as it should, debug with bash -x bashbot.sh. To stop the Bot run ./bashbot.sh kill

To use the functions provided in this script in other scripts simply source bashbot: source bashbot.sh

Have FUN!

Managing your own Bot

Start / Stop

Start or Stop your Bot use the following commands:

./bashbot.sh start
./bashbot.sh kill

User count

To count the total number of users that ever used the bot run the following command:

./bashbot.sh count

Sending broadcasts to all users

To send a broadcast to all of users that ever used the bot run the following command:

./bashbot.sh broadcast "Hey! I just wanted to let you know that the bot's been updated!"

Recieve data

Evertime a Message is recieved, you can read incoming data using the following variables:

  • $MESSAGE: Incoming messages
  • ${MESSAGE[ID]}: ID of incoming message
  • $CAPTION: Captions
  • $REPLYTO: Original message wich was replied to
  • $USER: This array contains the First name, last name, username and user id of the sender of the current message.
    • ${USER[ID]}: User id
    • ${USER[FIRST_NAME]}: User's first name
    • ${USER[LAST_NAME]}: User's last name
    • ${USER[USERNAME]}: Username
  • $CHAT: This array contains the First name, last name, username, title and user id of the chat of the current message.
    • ${CHAT[ID]}: Chat id
    • ${CHAT[FIRST_NAME]}: Chat's first name
    • ${CHAT[LAST_NAME]}: Chat's last name
    • ${CHAT[USERNAME]}: Username
    • ${CHAT[TITLE]}: Title
    • ${CHAT[TYPE]}: Type
    • ${CHAT[ALL_MEMBERS_ARE_ADMINISTRATORS]}: All members are administrators (true if true)
  • $REPLYTO: This array contains the First name, last name, username and user id of the ORIGINAL sender of the message REPLIED to.
    • ${REPLYTO[ID]}: ID of message wich was replied to
    • ${REPLYTO[UID]}: Original user's id
    • ${REPLYTO[FIRST_NAME]}: Original user's first name
    • ${REPLYTO[LAST_NAME]}: Original user's' last name
    • ${REPLYTO[USERNAME]}: Original user's username
  • $FORWARD: This array contains the First name, last name, username and user id of the ORIGINAL sender of the FORWARDED message.
    • ${FORWARD[ID]}: Same as MESSAGE[ID] if message is forwarded
    • ${FORWARD[UID]}: Original user's id
    • ${FORWARD[FIRST_NAME]}: Original user's first name
    • ${FORWARD[LAST_NAME]}: Original user's' last name
    • ${FORWARD[USERNAME]}: Original user's username
  • $URLS: This array contains documents, audio files, stickers, voice recordings and stickers stored in the form of URLs.
    • ${URLS[AUDIO]}: Audio files
    • ${URLS[VIDEO]}: Videos
    • ${URLS[PHOTO]}: Photos (maximum quality)
    • ${URLS[VOICE]}: Voice recordings
    • ${URLS[STICKER]}: Stickers
    • ${URLS[DOCUMENT]}: Any other file
  • $CONTACT: This array contains info about contacts sent in a chat.
    • ${CONTACT[NUMBER]}: Phone number
    • ${CONTACT[FIRST_NAME]}: First name
    • ${CONTACT[LAST_NAME]}: Last name
    • ${CONTACT[ID]}: User id
  • $LOCATION: This array contains info about locations sent in a chat.
    • ${LOCATION[LONGITUDE]}: Longitude
    • ${LOCATION[LATITUDE]}: Latitude

Usage of bashbot functions

send_message

To send messages use the send_message function:

send_message "${CHAT[ID]}" "lol"

To send html or markdown put the following strings before the text, depending on the parsing mode you want to enable:

send_message "${CHAT[ID]}" "markdown_parse_mode lol *bold*"
send_message "${CHAT[ID]}" "html_parse_mode lol <b>bold</b>"

This function also allows a third parameter that disables additional function parsing (for safety use this when reprinting user input):

send_message "${CHAT[ID]}" "lol" "safe"

To forward messages use the forward function:

forward "${CHAT[ID]}" "from_chat_id" "message_id"

For safety and performance reasoms I recommend to use send_xxxx_message direct and not the universal send_message function.

To send regular text without any markdown use:

send_text_message "${CHAT[ID]}" "lol"

To send text with markdown:

send_markdown_message "${CHAT[ID]}" "lol *bold*"

To send text with html:

send_html_message "${CHAT[ID]}" "lol <b>bold</b>"

If your Bot is Admin in a Chat you can delete every message, if not you can delete only your messages. To delete a message with a known ${MESSAGE[ID]} you can simple use:

delete_message "${CHAT[ID]}" "${MESSAGE[ID]}"

Send files, location etc.

To send images, videos, voice files, photos etc. use the send_photo function (remember to change the safety Regex @ line 14 of command.sh to allow sending files only from certain directories):

send_file "${CHAT[ID]}" "/home/user/doge.jpg" "Lool"

To send custom keyboards use the send_keyboard function:

send_keyboard "${CHAT[ID]}" "Text that will appear in chat?" "Yep" "No"

To send locations use the send_location function:

send_location "${CHAT[ID]}" "Latitude" "Longitude"

To send venues use the send_venue function:

send_venue "${CHAT[ID]}" "Latitude" "Longitude" "Title" "Address" "optional foursquare id"

To send a chat action use the send_action function. Allowed values: typing for text messages, upload_photo for photos, record_video or upload_video for videos, record_audio or upload_audio for audio files, upload_document for general files, find_location for locations.

send_action "${CHAT[ID]}" "action"

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