Tourmaline
Crystal Telegram Bot Framework
Quickstart
Crystal Telegram Bot Framework
Quickstart
Tourmaline uses Crystal to communicate with the Telegram Bot API. Therefore to use Tourmaline you should be familiar with how Crystal works.
Once inside of a Crystal project, add Tourmaline to your shard.yml
file and run shards install
to install it.
For more information, see the getting started page.
Using Annotations
require "tourmaline"
class EchoBot < Tourmaline::Client
@[Command("echo")]
def echo_command(ctx)
ctx.message.reply(ctx.text)
end
end
bot = EchoBot.new(bot_token: "YOUR_API_TOKEN")
bot.poll
More Procedural
require "tourmaline"
include Tourmaline # To shorten things
bot = Client.new(bot_token: "YOUR_API_TOKEN")
echo_handler = Handlers::CommandHandler.new("echo") do |ctx|
ctx.message.reply(ctx.text)
end
bot.add_event_handler(echo_handler)
bot.poll