Errbot VS python-telegram-bot

This reminds me of a time 10 years ago when the company IRC channel had a bot that was able to interpret python and output the result. We got nerd-sniped for a few hours trying to make the bot interpret its own output as input again. Fun times.

This ChatGPT thing looks like a box that has been opened and cannot be closed again.

Btw, that chatbot from my anecdote eventually evolved into errbot. https://github.com/errbotio/errbot

So I started working on a bot that would live in modchat, able to help us with whatever we needed and something that could be extended in the future. (For those interested in the tech side of things, we originally started by building on the errbot platform before eventually building a brand new system from scratch that better fit our needs.) As we built, we needed a name for the new bot; a few different names got thrown around, but we eventually settled on Bubbles.

Interesting Project.

I'm sure you're aware of Errbot (https://github.com/errbotio/errbot), though not specifically designed with slack in mind: I have had excellent success with this framework.

How does slack-machine compare?

PS: Please forgive the naive question, I'm about the board a flight and don't see anything mentioned or anything radically different about the stated goals.

Some limitations: if I'm on the tramway I'd like to send a Telegram message to my bot, but when I'm on a terminal, maybe I'd prefer to interact using IRC or Slack, if I'm in front of my desktop. Six years ago somebody asked about this in the Google+ group (now disappeared) and later somebody asked for this in the GitHub issues forum Support multiple backends in one instance #1137. But no advances on this matter appeared.

We've just gone through some basic examples but I hope you're convinced that creating your own Telegram bot is no tough work! From here on out, you may be interested to check out the documentation for python-telegram-bot to find out more of what you can do with the bot.

We are going to use this https://github.com/python-telegram-bot/python-telegram-bot package that will help us to create the telegram bot. Make sure to install it with

Nearly all py examples I see (eg examples within this popular package) use polling which I guess would be a separate server to the main Django server (as its a script thats continually running to listen). There's this older package with webhooks but it no longer works.

I've just tried to develop my first bot. There are a few libraries for this. I used this one - https://github.com/python-telegram-bot/python-telegram-bot. There is good documentation here with example code https://github.com/python-telegram-bot/python-telegram-bot/wiki/Extensions-–-Your-first-Bot. Also I used official documentation (which is more detailed): https://core.telegram.org/bots/features

First, create a bot by talking to the BotFather and follow the instructions to set it up. You can learn more about creating a bot by reading the official Telegram Bot documentation: https://core.telegram.org/bots#creating-a-new-bot Next, you will need to generate OTPs. One way to do this is by using a library like pyotp (https://pypi.org/project/pyotp/). This library allows you to generate OTPs using the HOTP (HMAC-Based One-Time Password) or TOTP (Time-Based One-Time Password) algorithms. Once you have your OTPs being generated, you can send them to your users via your bot. You can do this by using the bot's send_message method, which is part of the Python Telegram Bot library (https://python-telegram-bot.org/). Finally, you will need to handle user input and verify the OTPs that are sent to your bot. You can do this by handling the message event, which is triggered every time a user sends a message to your bot. In your event handler, you can check the received OTP against the expected OTP (which you can generate using the same library that you used to generate the initial OTP). If the OTPs match, you can consider the authentication to be successful.

python-telegram-bot I could not refuse