A Telegram chatbot boiler plate in Flask.

How to use It?

1. change app/config.py.

• create bot token

TELEGRAM_BOT_TOKEN="YOUR TOKEN HERE"
URL="YOUR TOKEN HERE"

• add your Token here and URL will we replace by the URL where your app is deployed.

  for heroku: https://<YOU APP NAME>.herokuapp.com/
  

2. To cutomize Chatbot to give reponse according to you requirements.

  you need to change respond function in /app/api.py.

  here you can find reponse variable like : response = 'Here is your response'

  Just change it to whatever you want to reply or you can integrate you smart reply AI and repond with that result
  Whatever you want.

3. after customizing your app.

you can deploy it and then trigger the setwebhook by going to <URl/setwebhook>.

For heruko:

• create your new app on heruko.
• add url of the app in app/config.py file.
• if you are not logged in to heruko first login using: heruko login
• initialize an empty git repository and add your app:

    git init
    heroku git:remote -a <app_name>
  

• deploy the app:

    git add .
    git commit -m "push"
    git push heroku master
  

• After successfull deployment got to: https://<you_app_name>.herokuapp.com/setwebhook
• if you see web hook setup Success Then you are good to go.
• Now you can chat with your bot and bot will reply to you according to your customization.