Telegram Bot

Chin Huat introducing Telegram app and bot programming to the team. This is presented in Inno Tech Bootcamp 2 on 6 July 2018.

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1. Telegram
3. What can you do with Telegram?
4. What can you do with Telegram?
5. What can you do with Telegram?
6. Telegram Bot
7. Bot Platform u Released in June 2015 u Major update in April 2016 u Open to everyone u No approval process
8. Telegram Bots u 1-1 conversations u Add to groups u Manage groups & channels u Access on-the-fly (inline bots)
9. Differences with Humans u No online status and no last seen timestamps u Can’t initiate conversations with users u Bots have limited cloud storage u Username always end with ‘bot’ (e.g. @TriviaBot, @GitHub_bot) u When added to groups, bots do not receive all message by default
10. Bot father u Create a new bot 1. /newbot 2. Enter name of bot: e.g. “Customer Support Bot” 3. Enter username e.g. CSuportBot 4. Store api token
11. Telegram Bot Feature
12. Bot Features:- u Inline Mode u Payment u Keyboards u Commands u Message Formatting u Location & phone number
13. Inline Mode
14. Payment
15. Keyboards
16. Inline Keyboards
17. Commands
18. Message Formatting Markdown style HTML style
19. Location & phone number
20. Links u PHP SDK u https://github.com/php-telegram-bot/core u Example Telegram Bot u https://github.com/php-telegram-bot/example-bot