#!/usr/bin/env python # pylint: disable=W0603 """Simple Bot to reply to Telegram messages. This is built on the API wrapper, see rawapibot.py to see the same example built on the telegram.ext bot framework. This program is dedicated to the public domain under the CC0 license. """ import logging from typing import NoReturn from time import sleep import telegram from telegram.error import NetworkError, Unauthorized UPDATE_ID = None def main() -> NoReturn: """Run the bot.""" global UPDATE_ID # Telegram Bot Authorization Token bot = telegram.Bot('TOKEN') # get the first pending update_id, this is so we can skip over it in case # we get an "Unauthorized" exception. try: UPDATE_ID = bot.get_updates()[0].update_id except IndexError: UPDATE_ID = None logging.basicConfig(format='%(asctime)s - %(name)s - %(levelname)s - %(message)s') while True: try: echo(bot) except NetworkError: sleep(1) except Unauthorized: # The user has removed or blocked the bot. UPDATE_ID += 1 # type: ignore[operator] def echo(bot: telegram.Bot) -> None: """Echo the message the user sent.""" global UPDATE_ID # Request updates after the last update_id for update in bot.get_updates(offset=UPDATE_ID, timeout=10): UPDATE_ID = update.update_id + 1 if update.message: # your bot can receive updates without messages if update.message.text: # not all messages contain text # Reply to the message update.message.reply_text(update.message.text) if __name__ == '__main__': main()