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teloxide

A full-featured framework that empowers you to easily build [Telegram bots](https://telegram.org/blog/bot-revolution) using the [`async`/`.await`](https://rust-lang.github.io/async-book/01_getting_started/01_chapter.html) syntax in [Rust](https://www.rust-lang.org/). It handles all the difficult stuff so you can focus only on your business logic.

Highlights

Setting up your environment

  1. Download Rust.
  2. Create a new bot using @Botfather to get a token in the format 123456789:blablabla.
  3. Initialise the TELOXIDE_TOKEN environmental variable to your token: ```bash

    Unix-like

$ export TELOXIDE_TOKEN=

Windows command line

$ set TELOXIDE_TOKEN=

Windows PowerShell

$ $env:TELOXIDE_TOKEN=

4. Make sure that your Rust compiler is up to date: bash

If you're using stable

$ rustup update stable $ rustup override set stable

If you're using nightly

$ rustup update nightly $ rustup override set nightly ```

  1. Run cargo new my_bot, enter the directory and put these lines into your Cargo.toml: toml [dependencies] teloxide = { version = "0.5", features = ["macros", "auto-send"] } log = "0.4" pretty_env_logger = "0.4.0" tokio = { version = "1.8", features = ["rt-multi-thread", "macros"] }

API overview

The dices bot

This bot replies with a dice throw to each received message:

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```rust,no_run use teloxide::prelude2::*;

[tokio::main]

async fn main() { teloxide::enablelogging!(); log::info!("Starting dicesbot...");

let bot = Bot::from_env().auto_send();

teloxide::repls2::repl(bot, |message: Message, bot: AutoSend<Bot>| async move {
    bot.send_dice(message.chat.id).await?;
    respond(())
})
.await;

} ```

Commands

Commands are strongly typed and defined declaratively, similar to how we define CLI using [structopt] and JSON structures in [serde-json]. The following bot accepts these commands:

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```rust,no_run use teloxide::{prelude2::*, utils::command::BotCommand};

use std::error::Error;

[derive(BotCommand, Clone)]

[command(rename = "lowercase", description = "These commands are supported:")]

enum Command { #[command(description = "display this text.")] Help, #[command(description = "handle a username.")] Username(String), #[command(description = "handle a username and an age.", parse_with = "split")] UsernameAndAge { username: String, age: u8 }, }

async fn answer( bot: AutoSend, message: Message, command: Command, ) -> Result<(), Box> { match command { Command::Help => bot.sendmessage(message.chat.id, Command::descriptions()).await?, Command::Username(username) => { bot.sendmessage(message.chat.id, format!("Your username is @{}.", username)).await? } Command::UsernameAndAge { username, age } => { bot.send_message( message.chat.id, format!("Your username is @{} and age is {}.", username, age), ) .await? } };

Ok(())

}

[tokio::main]

async fn main() { teloxide::enablelogging!(); log::info!("Starting simplecommands_bot...");

let bot = Bot::from_env().auto_send();

teloxide::repls2::commands_repl(bot, answer, Command::ty()).await;

} ```

Dialogues management

A dialogue is typically described by an enumeration where each variant is one of possible dialogue's states. There are also state handler functions, which may turn a dialogue from one state to another, thereby forming an [FSM].

Below is a bot that asks you three questions and then sends the answers back to you:

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```rust,ignore use teloxide::{dispatching2::dialogue::InMemStorage, macros::DialogueState, prelude2::*};

type MyDialogue = Dialogue>;

[derive(DialogueState, Clone)]

[handler_out(anyhow::Result<()>)]

pub enum State { #[handler(handle_start)] Start,

#[handler(handle_receive_full_name)]
ReceiveFullName,

#[handler(handle_receive_age)]
ReceiveAge { full_name: String },

#[handler(handle_receive_location)]
ReceiveLocation { full_name: String, age: u8 },

}

impl Default for State { fn default() -> Self { Self::Start } }

[tokio::main]

async fn main() { teloxide::enablelogging!(); log::info!("Starting dialoguebot...");

let bot = Bot::from_env().auto_send();

Dispatcher::builder(
    bot,
    Update::filter_message()
        .enter_dialogue::<Message, InMemStorage<State>, State>()
        .dispatch_by::<State>(),
)
.dependencies(dptree::deps![InMemStorage::<State>::new()])
.build()
.setup_ctrlc_handler()
.dispatch()
.await;

}

async fn handlestart( bot: AutoSend, msg: Message, dialogue: MyDialogue, ) -> anyhow::Result<()> { bot.sendmessage(msg.chat.id, "Let's start! What's your full name?").await?; dialogue.update(State::ReceiveFullName).await?; Ok(()) }

async fn handlereceivefullname( bot: AutoSend, msg: Message, dialogue: MyDialogue, ) -> anyhow::Result<()> { match msg.text() { Some(text) => { bot.sendmessage(msg.chat.id, "How old are you?").await?; dialogue.update(State::ReceiveAge { fullname: text.into() }).await?; } None => { bot.sendmessage(msg.chat.id, "Send me plain text.").await?; } }

Ok(())

}

async fn handlereceiveage( bot: AutoSend, msg: Message, dialogue: MyDialogue, (fullname,): (String,), // Available from State::ReceiveAge. ) -> anyhow::Result<()> { match msg.text().map(|text| text.parse::()) { Some(Ok(age)) => { bot.sendmessage(msg.chat.id, "What's your location?").await?; dialogue.update(State::ReceiveLocation { fullname, age }).await?; } _ => { bot.sendmessage(msg.chat.id, "Send me a number.").await?; } }

Ok(())

}

async fn handlereceivelocation( bot: AutoSend, msg: Message, dialogue: MyDialogue, (fullname, age): (String, u8), // Available from State::ReceiveLocation. ) -> anyhow::Result<()> { match msg.text() { Some(location) => { let message = format!("Full name: {}\nAge: {}\nLocation: {}", fullname, age, location); bot.sendmessage(msg.chat.id, message).await?; dialogue.exit().await?; } None => { bot.sendmessage(msg.chat.id, "Send me plain text.").await?; } }

Ok(())

} ```

More examples >>

FAQ

Q: Where I can ask questions?

A:

Q: Do you support the Telegram API for clients?

A: No, only the bots API.

Q: Can I use webhooks?

A: teloxide doesn't provide special API for working with webhooks due to their nature with lots of subtle settings. Instead, you should setup your webhook by yourself, as shown in examples/ngrok_ping_pong_bot and examples/heroku_ping_pong_bot.

Associated links: - Marvin's Marvellous Guide to All Things Webhook - Using self-signed certificates

Q: Can I use different loggers?

A: Yes. You can setup any logger, for example, [fern], e.g. teloxide has no specific requirements as it depends only on [log]. Remember that [enable_logging!] and [enable_logging_with_filter!] are just optional utilities.

Community bots

Feel free to propose your own bot to our collection!

Contributing

See CONRIBUTING.md.