pyTelegramBotAPI

A Python implementation for the Telegram Bot API.

See https://core.telegram.org/bots/api

Creating a Telegram bot with the pyTelegramBotAPI

There are two ways to define a Telegram Bot with the pyTelegramBotAPI. ### The listener mechanism

• First, create a TeleBot instance.

import telebot

TOKEN = '<token string>'

bot = telebot.TeleBot(TOKEN)

• Then, define a listener function.

def echo_messages(*messages):
    """
    Echoes all incoming messages of content_type 'text'.
    """
    for m in messages:
        chatid = m.chat.id
        if m.content_type == 'text':
            text = m.text
            bot.send_message(chatid, text)

• Now, register your listener with the TeleBot instance and call TeleBot#polling()

bot.set_update_listener(echo_messages)
bot.polling()

while True: # Don't let the main Thread end.
    pass

• use Message’s content_type attribute to check the type of Message. Now Message supports content types:
• text
• audio
• document
• photo
• sticker
• video
• location
• contact
• new_chat_participant
• left_chat_participant
• new_chat_title
• new_chat_photo
• delete_chat_photo
• group_chat_created
• That’s it!

The decorator mechanism

• First, create a TeleBot instance.

import telebot

TOKEN = '<token string>'

bot = telebot.TeleBot(TOKEN)

• Next, define all of your so-called message handlers and decorate them with @bot.message_handler

# Handle /start and /help
@bot.message_handler(commands=['start', 'help'])
def command_help(message):
    bot.reply_to(message, "Hello, did someone call for help?")

# Handles all messages which text matches the regex regexp.
# See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regular_expression
# This regex matches all sent url's.
@bot.message_handler(regexp='((https?):((//)|(\\\\))+([\w\d:#@%/;$()~_?\+-=\\\.&](#!)?)*)')
def command_url(message):
    bot.reply_to(message, "I shouldn't open that url, should I?")

# Handle all sent documents of type 'text/plain'.
@bot.message_handler(func=lambda message: message.document.mime_type == 'text/plain', content_types=['document'])
def command_handle_document(message):
    bot.reply_to(message, "Document received, sir!")

# Default command handler. A lambda expression which always returns True is used for this purpose.
@bot.message_handler(func=lambda message: True, content_types=['audio', 'video', 'document', 'text', 'location', 'contact', 'sticker'])
def default_command(message):
    bot.reply_to(message, "This is the default command handler.")

• And finally, call bot.polling()

bot.polling()

while True: # Don't end the main thread.
    pass

Use whichever mechanism fits your purpose! It is even possible to mix and match.

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