telegram-resource

Act as a telegram bot tracking and sending messages

Add to a pipeline configuration

resource_types:
- name: telegram
  type: docker-image
  source:
    repository: carlocolombo/telegram-resource

Tags

• latest stable build
• latest-dev build from the latest commit

https://hub.docker.com/r/carlocolombo/telegram-resource/tags/

Source Configuration

• telegram_key Required . Ask it to the BotFather
• filter Optional. A regex string eg "/start"
• flags Optional. String of flags eg "mi" for multiline and case insensitive. Check more on mdn

Example

resources:
- name: start
  type: telegram
  source:
    filter: '/start'
    flags: i
    telegram_key: {{telegram_bot_token}}

Fetching messages:

- get: start
  trigger: true

Send a full featured message:

- put: answer
  params:
    message: answer/message

Send a simple message:

- put: answer
  params:
    chat_id: answer/chat_id
    text: answer/text

Behavior

check: Check for new messages

Returns the recent messages sent to the telegram bot, if filter is defined it will return only the messages matching the regex

in: Read a message

Outputs 1 file:

• message: Contains the message as retrieved from telegram api, it is a json rappresenting an update object. Only update of type message are supported right now

out: Send a message

Parameters

text and chat_id or message are required, if all present message has precedence over the pair chat_id text

• text: Text of the message to be sent
• chat_id: Unique identifier for the target chat or username of the target channel (in the format @channelusername)
• message: A json rappresenting a full message to be sent using the api, https://core.telegram.org/bots/api#sendmessage

Example Configurations

• Example pipeline
• CI pipeline