📑 Telegram Bot Template (TBT)

This is a template repo for cloning and reusing to create custom telegram bots with python-telegram-bot library in Python.

Installation & usage

1. Clone the repo

$ git clone https://github.com/nuriddinislamov/telegram-bot-template my-bot

2. Go to project directory, create virtualenv and activate it

$ cd my-bot; python3 -m venv venv; source venv/bin/activate

3. Download and install all dependencies with pip

$ pip install -r requirements.txt

4. Add an environment variable for bot's token. You can get one here with BotFather.

   • ❗️ Deprecated version

     $ export BOT_TOKEN='your actual token'

   • 👍 Recommended Create a file with name .env (no name, just .env) and type in your bot's token as:

     1. BOT_TOKEN='your actual token'

   
   

5. 🎉 Great! Now run the bot and see the magic happen.

$ python3 bot.py

Licence

This template is under MIT license.

Copyright

© Nuriddin Islamov, 2021