Smarter and easier way to program Telegram bot menus
I would like to program a Telegram bot in Node.js and Typescript.
After a start command is received the bot should communicate with single reactive menu - basically something like BotFather's edit bots menu. For the sake of simplicity, the bot should solely handle conversations with a single user(no groups, inline messages and so on).
Here, the term menu means a single message with reactive text and buttons. The text is updated according to the user historical choices in the various sub-menus and so are the buttons.
The tedious parts I am trying to get rid of and abstract away are:
- Encoding each button and each menu identifier in callback_data(callback_data is limited to 64 byte so it even gets worse).
- Decoding each incoming callback query to figure out which button was pressed in which menu.
- Manually send the next menu accordingly.
To put it concisely, I want to focus primarily on coding menus and transitions.
Ideally, it should be like programming a static React single page application.
After experimenting several platforms I chose node-telegram-bot-api.
Since I want to build it myself Manybot is not an option.
Checking Google and similar Stackoverflow questions the closest thing I have found is http://github.com/bvn13/TelegramInlineMultipageMenu. Additionally, it doesn't look like any platform mentioned in https://core.telegram.org/bots/samples offers that abstraction.
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asked Nov 20 '18 at 14:40
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I would like to program a Telegram bot in Node.js and Typescript.
After a start command is received the bot should communicate with single reactive menu - basically something like BotFather's edit bots menu. For the sake of simplicity, the bot should solely handle conversations with a single user(no groups, inline messages and so on).
Here, the term menu means a single message with reactive text and buttons. The text is updated according to the user historical choices in the various sub-menus and so are the buttons.
The tedious parts I am trying to get rid of and abstract away are:
- Encoding each button and each menu identifier in callback_data(callback_data is limited to 64 byte so it even gets worse).
- Decoding each incoming callback query to figure out which button was pressed in which menu.
- Manually send the next menu accordingly.
To put it concisely, I want to focus primarily on coding menus and transitions.
Ideally, it should be like programming a static React single page application.
After experimenting several platforms I chose node-telegram-bot-api.
Since I want to build it myself Manybot is not an option.
Checking Google and similar Stackoverflow questions the closest thing I have found is http://github.com/bvn13/TelegramInlineMultipageMenu. Additionally, it doesn't look like any platform mentioned in https://core.telegram.org/bots/samples offers that abstraction.
node.js menu telegram telegram-bot
asked Nov 20 '18 at 14:40
polipoli
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I would like to program a Telegram bot in Node.js and Typescript.
After a start command is received the bot should communicate with single reactive menu - basically something like BotFather's edit bots menu. For the sake of simplicity, the bot should solely handle conversations with a single user(no groups, inline messages and so on).
Here, the term menu means a single message with reactive text and buttons. The text is updated according to the user historical choices in the various sub-menus and so are the buttons.
The tedious parts I am trying to get rid of and abstract away are:
- Encoding each button and each menu identifier in callback_data(callback_data is limited to 64 byte so it even gets worse).
- Decoding each incoming callback query to figure out which button was pressed in which menu.
- Manually send the next menu accordingly.
To put it concisely, I want to focus primarily on coding menus and transitions.
Ideally, it should be like programming a static React single page application.
After experimenting several platforms I chose node-telegram-bot-api.
Since I want to build it myself Manybot is not an option.
Checking Google and similar Stackoverflow questions the closest thing I have found is http://github.com/bvn13/TelegramInlineMultipageMenu. Additionally, it doesn't look like any platform mentioned in https://core.telegram.org/bots/samples offers that abstraction.
node.js menu telegram telegram-bot
asked Nov 20 '18 at 14:40
polipoli
253
I would like to program a Telegram bot in Node.js and Typescript.
After a start command is received the bot should communicate with single reactive menu - basically something like BotFather's edit bots menu. For the sake of simplicity, the bot should solely handle conversations with a single user(no groups, inline messages and so on).
Here, the term menu means a single message with reactive text and buttons. The text is updated according to the user historical choices in the various sub-menus and so are the buttons.
The tedious parts I am trying to get rid of and abstract away are:
- Encoding each button and each menu identifier in callback_data(callback_data is limited to 64 byte so it even gets worse).
- Decoding each incoming callback query to figure out which button was pressed in which menu.
- Manually send the next menu accordingly.
To put it concisely, I want to focus primarily on coding menus and transitions.
Ideally, it should be like programming a static React single page application.
After experimenting several platforms I chose node-telegram-bot-api.
Since I want to build it myself Manybot is not an option.
Checking Google and similar Stackoverflow questions the closest thing I have found is http://github.com/bvn13/TelegramInlineMultipageMenu. Additionally, it doesn't look like any platform mentioned in https://core.telegram.org/bots/samples offers that abstraction.
node.js menu telegram telegram-bot
node.js menu telegram telegram-bot
asked Nov 20 '18 at 14:40
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asked Nov 20 '18 at 14:40
polipoli
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edited Nov 20 '18 at 21:04
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