mekicha / telebot

A simple Go wrapper for the Telegram Bot API

This just implements a few of the Telegram Bot API methods.

I am writing this first as a learning task for Go, but also leveraging it to write a simple program that sends updates about a trading platform error to an Instagram Channel.

Still at a young stage. Will be improving it with time

A simple, contrived example.

This just sends msg to the channel name specified. You will have to add your bot as an administrator to the channel.

Once added, it can send messages(text, files, etc) to the channel.

package main

import (
	"fmt"
	"os"
	"github.com/mekicha/telebot"
	"time"
	"log"
)


func main() {

	bot, err := telebot.NewBot(os.Getenv("TELEGRAM_TOKEN"))

	if err != nil {
		log.Fatal(err)
	}

	ticker := time.NewTicker(time.Millisecond * 500)


	go func() {
		for t := range ticker.C {
			msg := fmt.Sprintf("Ticking at %d", t)
			err := bot.SendToChannel("@channelName", msg)

			if err != nil {
				break
			}
		}
	}()

	time.Sleep(time.Millisecond * 1600)
	ticker.Stop()

	fmt.Println("tired of sending")


}