Strapi v4 plugin: Telegram bot

Plugin Strapi for sending messages to a Telegram bot.

Table of Contents

• ✨ Features
• ⏳ Installation
• 🔧 Configuration
• 🖐 Using
• 📚 References

✨ Features

The plugin allows sending text messages to site administrators. This will enable quicker processing of customer inquiries or orders.

⏳ Installation

Via Strapi Marketplace

Currently, this is not implemented.

Via command line

(Use yarn to install this plugin within your Strapi project (recommended). Install yarn with these docs.)

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  yarn add telegram-bot-strapi

After successful installation you've to re-build your Strapi instance. To archive that simply use:

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  yarn build
  yarn develop

The telegram-bot plugin should appear in the Plugins section of Strapi sidebar after you run app again.

As a next step you must configure your the plugin by the way you want to. See Configuration section.

All done. Enjoy 🎉

🔧 Configuration

• Register a Telegram bot using @BotFather
• Add the received token to the .env file.

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  TELEGRAM_TOKEN=""

• A plugin will appear in the Strapi admin panel.

• In the plugin window, the name of your bot should appear.

• Congratulations, everything is ready for use.

🖐 Using

• Add the created bot to the contacts list.
• Execute the command /start in the added bot.
• Receive a message about successful registration.
• In the bot's window, click the Update list chats button.
• The registered user will appear in this list.
• Edit the user's settings to allow them to receive messages.

• To send messages to all selected users, make a POST request.

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  http://[addres sever]/telegram-bot-strapi/send-message
  
    {
      "message": "My first message"
    }
  

• All activated users will receive the message.

• In response, we will receive a message:

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  {
    "result": "Message send"
  }
  

📚 References

• Strapi
• Create Telegram bot
• Create Telegram bot (Video)