node-telegram-bot-api VS aiogram

Node.js Telegram Bot Library: https://github.com/yagop/node-telegram-bot-api

Hi, I am developing a telegram chatbot using node-telegram-bot - https://github.com/yagop/node-telegram-bot-api) in Node.js that requires getting the previous messages or chat history of the user and bot.

Of course, it's good to write API requests yourself. It reduces the dependency on third-party libraries and allows you to control the behavior of the code more. But when there are more such methods than twenty, it already increases the size of the code. It becomes difficult to manage all the logic. This is where third-party libraries(frameworks) come to the rescue. After choosing a language, you can consider the options of different libraries from the list here, on the official Telegram page. For JavaScript I recommend using node-telegram-bot-api and telegraf. For Python you can take pyTelegramBotAPI and aiogram(highly recommended).

We checked if our text is equal to our command and responded with message. It is all main logic from this package, more sendMessage methods or params you can see here. Also we used reply_markup option in which we can use our keyboard, which will be sent with our message. And then we can check if text equal to "en" we will change our language to english and response with message. In addition, if you have a question like can you send message without getting message from user - you can do it. All that you need is to save your user to database like MongoDB with chatId field and use something like express to make CRUD methods to send your message. Here is my example of this 'bot mailer':

The Telegram bot API is pretty convenient to setup. Installing node and npm via toltec then https://github.com/yagop/node-telegram-bot-api/ makes it even easier to get a bot running in minutes. The resulting minimal app running on the reMarkable uses less than 1% CPU and 110Mb of RAM. Here the /ls example shows the last modified file by xochtil but other functions could be added to wget a PDF or ePub then add it.

I just released an open-source project I’ve been building: AiogramX — a collection of modular, ready-to-use widgets for building rich Telegram bot UIs using Aiogram.

The first idea is doable if you have programming skills. Maybe with something like this: https://github.com/aiogram/aiogram

It could be made to join groups, I'll really consider that if there is a demand. I'm using Aiogram bot and it support this.

Here, the decorators have already used filters built into aiogram. The entire list of such filters can be found here.

Of course, it's good to write API requests yourself. It reduces the dependency on third-party libraries and allows you to control the behavior of the code more. But when there are more such methods than twenty, it already increases the size of the code. It becomes difficult to manage all the logic. This is where third-party libraries(frameworks) come to the rescue. After choosing a language, you can consider the options of different libraries from the list here, on the official Telegram page. For JavaScript I recommend using node-telegram-bot-api and telegraf. For Python you can take pyTelegramBotAPI and aiogram(highly recommended).

you can start by looking at python-telegram-bot, pyTelegramBotAPI, aiogram. The rest is looking throught the documentation.

aiogram

I'd suggest not using pyTelegramBotAPI because of its unstable polling. If you're ok with asyncio, try https://github.com/aiogram/aiogram

I'm willing to release the code on GitHub along with an article on my blog if you are interested. The bot is coded in Python using mainly the Aiogram package https://github.com/aiogram/aiogram.

I have never used python-telegram-bot (which looks like to be your case), but with aiogram, it's pretty easy to send mediafiles: https://github.com/aiogram/aiogram/blob/dev-2.x/examples/media_group.py (you can replace "attach_photo" with "attach video"). Note that the latest aiogram version 2.12 seems to be broken, so downgrade to 2.11.2.