Simple-Telegram

Allow your programs to talk to you by Telegram

Pre-requisites

Simple-telegram is based in vysheng’s telegram-cli project. You must install and configure this great project previously to use simple-telegram. You can obtain every info that you need in vysheng’s repository.

Also, you must install nodeJs 0.10 or above. You can check more info here.

##Installation

Easy. If you use npm (recommended):

npm install simple-telegram

If you prefer git:

git clone https://github.com/GuillermoPena/simple-telegram.git

Simple-telegram has been tested in Ubuntu 14.04 and Raspberry Pi with Raspbmc. This doesn’t mean that simple-telegram doesn’t work in other systems… try it!

##How to use it

Simple-telegram allows send and receive messages by Telegram so, how do it?

1. Sending a message:

   Using ‘send’ public method Sintaxis: tg.send(userName, message) Example:

   var SimpleTelegram = require('simple-telegram')
   var stg = new SimpleTelegram()
   
   // Replace next values to your own paths
   var tgBinFile  = "[your path]/telegram-cli"
   var tgKeysFile = "[your path]/tg-server.pub"
   
   // Creating simpleTelegram object
   stg.create(tgBinFile, tgKeysFile)
   
   stg.send("John", "Hi John!")

2. Receiving a message:

   Catching ‘receivedMessage’ event, which provide you a object like this: msg = { “caller”:”John”; “content”: “Hi”; "command": "Hi"; "args":"" } Example:

   var SimpleTelegram = require('simple-telegram')
   var stg = new SimpleTelegram()
   
   // Replace next values to your own paths
   var tgBinFile  = "[your path]/telegram-cli"
   var tgKeysFile = "[your path]/tg-server.pub"
   
   // Creating simpleTelegram object
   stg.create(tgBinFile, tgKeysFile)
   
   stg.getProcess().stdout.on("receivedMessage", function(msg) {
       console.log("\nReceived message")
       console.dir(msg)
   })

3. Send and receive a message from another program with socket.io... ...and other optionals functions.

   Server side:

   var SimpleTelegram = require('simple-telegram')
   var stg = new SimpleTelegram()
   
   // Replace next values to your own paths
   var tgBinFile  = "[your path]/telegram-cli"
   var tgKeysFile = "[your path]/tg-server.pub"
   
   // Creating simpleTelegram object
   var options = '-vv'	// Extra telegram option (more verbose output)
   
   // If you want send messages from another program, you must specify a port
   stg.setSocketPort(3008)
   
   // You can add one or more loggers (winston loggers) to files, DBs.. etc
   stg.addLogger(logger)
   
   // Also, you can set a debug file for telegram process
   stg.setTelegramDebugFile(tgDebugfile)
   
   // Launching telegram process
   stg.create(tgBinFile, tgKeysFile, options)

   Client side:

   var io      = require('socket.io/node_modules/socket.io-client')
   var socket  = io.connect( 'http://localhost:' + port) // Port of server side
   
   socket.on('connect', function(){
   	console.log("Connected!")
   	socket.on('disconnect', function(){
   		console.log('Disconnected!')
   		return 0
   	})
   
   	// 'to' is a Telegram-cli contact
   	var message = { "from":"Test", "to":"Customer", "content":"Hi" }
   	console.log("Sending message...")
   	console.dir(message)
   	socket.emit('message', message)
   })

Contributors

• GuillermoPena