#!/usr/bin/env python # # Simple Bot to reply Telegram messages # Copyright (C) 2015 Leandro Toledo de Souza # # This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify # it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by # the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or # (at your option) any later version. # # This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, # but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of # MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the # GNU General Public License for more details. # # You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License # along with this program. If not, see [http://www.gnu.org/licenses/]. import logging import telegram import time LAST_UPDATE_ID = None def main(): global LAST_UPDATE_ID logging.basicConfig( format='%(asctime)s - %(name)s - %(levelname)s - %(message)s') # Telegram Bot Authorization Token bot = telegram.Bot('TOKEN') # This will be our global variable to keep the latest update_id when requesting # for updates. It starts with the latest update_id if available. try: LAST_UPDATE_ID = bot.getUpdates()[-1].update_id except IndexError: LAST_UPDATE_ID = None while True: echo(bot) time.sleep(3) def echo(bot): global LAST_UPDATE_ID # Request updates from last updated_id for update in bot.getUpdates(offset=LAST_UPDATE_ID): if LAST_UPDATE_ID < update.update_id: # chat_id is required to reply any message chat_id = update.message.chat_id message = update.message.text.encode('utf-8') if (message): # Reply the message bot.sendMessage(chat_id=chat_id, text=message) # Updates global offset to get the new updates LAST_UPDATE_ID = update.update_id if __name__ == '__main__': main()