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Sending images and more with Telegram bot

Rajitha Gunathilake on May 24, 2021

Hi everyone, This is a follow-up tutorial on my previous tutorial about Sending messages with Telegram bot. make sure you check that before follow...

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Nilesh Kawar • May 29 '21

Hey buddy I need help regarding telegram bot development
I'm new to telegram bot development i have been stuck in one issue for 5 days and I can't figure it out It'd be great if you could help me pls

Rajitha Gunathilake • May 29 '21

can you specify the issue ?

Nilesh Kawar • May 29 '21

So basically I have an array i want to show elements from an array in inlineKeyboard buttons

I have explained it on stackoverflow:
stackoverflow.com/questions/676461...

Pls help

Rajitha Gunathilake • May 29 '21

I'll take a look , and let you know .

Nilesh Kawar • May 29 '21

Yes please

Rajitha Gunathilake • May 30 '21

const { Telegraf } = require("telegraf");
const axios = require("axios");

const bot = new Telegraf("XXXXX");
bot.start((ctx) => ctx.reply("Welcome"));
bot.help((ctx) => ctx.reply("Send me a sticker"));
bot.on("sticker", (ctx) => ctx.reply("👍"));
bot.hears("hi", (ctx) => ctx.reply("Hey there"));
bot.hears("Wow", async (ctx) => {
  let stateNames = await getStates();
  console.log(stateNames);

  let listt = [];

  for (let index = 0; index < stateNames.length - 1; index += 2) {
    listt.push([
      { text: stateNames[index], callback_data: String(index) },
      { text: stateNames[index + 1], callback_data: String(index + 1) },
    ]);
  }

  console.log(listt);

  ctx.telegram.sendMessage(ctx.chat.id, "nani", {
    reply_markup: {
      inline_keyboard: listt,
    },
  });
});

bot.launch();

// Enable graceful stop
process.once("SIGINT", () => bot.stop("SIGINT"));
process.once("SIGTERM", () => bot.stop("SIGTERM"));

async function getStates() {
  url = "https://api.covid19india.org/data.json";
  res = await axios.get(url);

  stateArr = res.data.statewise;
  totalStates = stateArr.length;

  let stateName = new Array();

  for (let i = 0; i < totalStates; i++) {
    stateName[i] = stateArr[i].state;
  }

  // console.log(stateName);

  return stateName;
}

Rajitha Gunathilake • May 30 '21

hope this helps

Nilesh Kawar • May 30 '21

Thank you so much, sir. I have been stuck for one week on this issue. Thank you so much for resolving and providing a solution.

I tried myself but couldn't solve it. I googled it, asked so many peoples but no one replied, and finally, you solved it.
Again Thank you so much.

Rajitha Gunathilake • May 30 '21

your welcome ✌

Sami Folio • Jul 1 '21

Hello Rajitha, I need to receive specific photos from Telegram to a Telegram widget on my site. I can pay $100 if you can help. I will have lots of other things to do after that. The chat ID i want photos from has lots of images, and i only want those with a word before them. Suppose there are photos of animals and i only want the ones with cats, so the sentence before has to start with "cat" . And it can only be from the Channel owner, not people who comment.