I'm building a custom integration with Telegram an...
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kind-orange-96173
07/02/2023, 11:52 AMI'm building a custom integration with Telegram and I need to send a message that I get from Telegram to botpress. I assume it should be done with a webhook, but the response I'm getting from botpress is empty.
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early-train-33247
07/04/2023, 1:58 AMHey @kind-orange-96173, you should use the Telegram integration to achieve that!
Go to the Dashboard, integrations tab, browse the hub, and find Telegram
early-train-33247
07/04/2023, 1:58 AMClick Install and choose your bot
early-train-33247
07/04/2023, 1:58 AMNow go to BotFather and grab your bot token, and paste it on the integration settings
early-train-33247
07/04/2023, 1:59 AMHere is a tutorial for this
https://botpress.com/docs/cloud/channels/telegram/
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kind-orange-96173
07/04/2023, 6:01 AMThanks, I needed a custom one that can filter messages I sent to bot press based on few conditions. It's done now 👍
Botfather has only two options:
- following a weird format to send message to the bot
- or allowing it to receive all of the messages in the group, which is pointless and expensive
You can't really integrate anything production tier with the built in one as you can't limit it in any way and even if you're somehow comfortable with the required format from Botfather, you are still exposed to spam attacks.
kind-orange-96173
07/04/2023, 6:02 AMI'd suggest to add an option for a source filter like group name and message filter so in Botfather we can set it to receive all messages and in the integration we can filter out the ones that we don't want to respond to and pay money for.
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early-train-33247
07/05/2023, 12:22 AMHey @kind-orange-96173, so you would like to restrict the bot to only respond in certain groups?