Serverless Telegram Bot on AWS

A NodeJS Telegram bot deployed using Pulumi.

Frameworks Used

Requirements

Pulumi configured.
A Telegram account.

Installation

Install Pulumi.
Install the required dependencies.

npm install

Build the Lambda functions.

npm run build

Create a Telegram bot using @BotFather.
Create a new Pulumi stack.

pulumi stack init <stack_name>

Configure the AWS region you want to deploy into.

pulumi config set aws:region <aws_region>

Add the Telegram Bot token received as a secret to Pulumi config

pulumi config set tgBotToken <your_token> --secret

Deploy the application.

pulumi up

You can check the bot's status with the /health endpoint.

curl $(pulumi stack output apiUrl)/health

Using set-webhook endpoint, register the bot's webhook on Telegram

curl -X POST $(pulumi stack output apiUrl)/set-webhook

Usage

Now you can /start a conversation with the bot.

Removal

To delete the project from AWS.

pulumi destroy

Talk to @BotFather to delete the bot.

Acknowledgements