Telegram Bot Setup Video Walkthrough
This is a tutorial about creating a telegram bot that is used for the telegram-reply-bot for steem. This idea originally came as questions flooded in about how to setup the telegram reply bot. I want people to know how to use this project successfully, so I created this tutorial that is basically how to use it including setting up your telegram service.
Requirements
- Docker is required to start and run the bot. Please make sure you have installed it. This tutorial does not cover that.
- Telegram Account please make sure you already have one.
Audience
This is intended for anyone interested in running a standalone version of the bot. You do not need to do this to use the bot. Beginners level technical knowledge is all you will need to complete this tutorial.
Here is the Video
Further Instructions
Some additional (really, they're the same) instructions on how to set this up.
Botfather
- Start a conversation in Telegram with Botfather
- Use
/newbotto create your bot - Save your token
telegram-reply-steem-bot
Setting this up is easy
docker run --rm -e STEEM_NAME=$STEEM_NAME -e BOT_TOKEN=$BOT_TOKEN r351574nc3/telegram-reply-steem-bot:latest
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Digest: sha256:cf1220972904f60f304c09c783d63b8587acf1c3238e2564fcdda1a21b4bd6a1
Status: Downloaded newer image for r351574nc3/telegram-reply-steem-bot:latest
> [email protected] start /app
> npm run serve
> [email protected] serve /app
> node dist/server.js
That is it. You are now running.
Start a Conversation with your Bot
You need to initiate a conversation to get those replies.
- Open a conversation with your bot
- Use
/start <your steem name> <your steem wif>
You will see something like this:
That's it! You will now get replies in telegram.
Contact Me
If you have questions, you can reach me on Telegram
Curriculum
Other steem tutorials in this series:
- Tutorial: Getting Started with git-steem-bot
- Tutorial: Weekly Digest Steembot in a Docker Container
- Tutorial: Viewing Steemit Account History
- Tutorial: OAuth2 Access Tokens and Refresh Tokens with Steemconnect by r351574nc3
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Ok, this is what I mentioned before about adjectives. They're subjective. Simple? As I said in the video, this is something that is pretty commonly requested of for me. This bot has existed now for nearly a couple months and I'm still being asked how to set things up.
Further, it goes beyond just simple setup. This is a full tutorial that illustrates how to run the bot, create and configure another bot in telegram, not just set it up.
bro you are smart af, I want to learn coding just to lazy to do so. I wanted to make a upvoting bot a little while back ago but couldn't figure out how if you could post a instructional video like the one you did right now but for a upvote bot id supper appreciate it!
Sure! I can do that. I'll do javascript. I'll even show how to get it up on heroku.
i super appreciate that brother!
https://utopian.io/utopian-io/@r351574nc3/heroku-steem-js-tutorial don't hesitate to ask questions. I'll answer the best I can.
This is very useful information ! I really liked this .......... Thank you so much
What are these bots used for? why would one use a reply bot? And why would one want to hook a bot up to Steemit?
Well, this specific reply bot listens for users that send replies to your posts and will reply to you in telegram. Why would you want this? Well, it's for correspondence. If you want to engage your readers/viewers through replies with telegram on a post, you can do that with this bot. It basically proxies all replies to your telegram conversation. Any responses in your telegram conversation are automatically sent to steemit.
You could just use esteem or busy for pretty much the exact same thing, but telegram gives you the ability to correspond like you would with a text messaging app with emojis and even the use of telegram apps.
Now bots in general on steemit are for different reasons:
Thanks for explaining. I'm use Steemit to post my Diatribes- not looking to use Bots with Steemit & have it take up more of my life.
I have been interested though- in finding out how to set up a Bot- or some type of Data-Crawler- a Spider- to scour the internet for some subject I've been researching...
You may also like running a digest bot. Something that creates a newsletter type thing based on some data you collect and pushes out in a known format each week. A friend of mine was thinking of writing an arbitrage report bot that would post arbitrage reports for people that follow that sort of thing.
thanks for the info- i intent to look into this digest bot