Telegram Greeting Bot Hosted on Firebase

Simple bot for greeting new people in your telegram group chat.

Table of Contents

• Telegram Bot with Firebase Hosting
  • First Steps
  • Getting Started
  • Greetings
  • Deployment

First Steps:

Important steps before using this project:

1. Create your Bot
   Search in telegram @BotFather or open this link
   Write the command “/newBot “
   Follow all the steps Write down 2 things :

   • bot name (finished in ‘bot’): In example firebaseBot
   • Secret Token (don’t miss it): in example LONG_STRING_TOKEN

2. Create your Firebase project
   Go to your firebase console https://console.firebase.google.com
   Add a new project
   Write down the id of the project: in example firebase-bot-xxYYx

   Upgrade your plan to Blaze (pay-as-you-go, No-cost up to 2M/month invocations: it's about 70000 messages in day for your bot to handle )

Getting Started:

Clone the project. Install globally firebase-tools: npm install -g firebase-tools Login into firebase: firebase login Init firebase in the same folder: firebase init functions Choose:

• existing project
• overwrite default
• overwrite index.ts - NO

Check .firebaserc, make sure that "default" field contains the id of your firebase project.

"default": /*add your project id firebaseBot-xxYYx */

Set environment variables with following commands:

You bot token from 1.

firebase functions:config:set telegram.token="<LONG_STRING_TOKEN>"

Url of your project, usually region+firebase project id:

firebase functions:config:set telegram.url="https://us-central1-<YOURFIREBASEPROJECTID>.cloudfunctions.net/bot"

Greetings

Feel free to modify array "greetings" in index.ts to add your own funny greetings for users.

Deployment

Use npm deploy

After the deployment you can test your bot with "/testme" command.