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teloxide

A full-featured framework that empowers you to easily build Telegram bots using the async/.await syntax in Rust. It handles all the difficult stuff so you can focus only on your business logic.

Highlights

• Declarative design. teloxide is based upon dptree, a functional-style chain of responsibility pattern that allows you to express pipelines of message processing in a highly declarative and extensible style.

• Dialogues management subsystem. Our dialogues management subsystem is simple and easy-to-use, and, furthermore, is agnostic of how/where dialogues are stored. For example, you can just replace a one line to achieve persistence. Out-of-the-box storages include Redis and Sqlite.

• Strongly typed commands. You can describe bot commands as enumerations, and then they'll be automatically constructed from strings — just like JSON structures in serde-json and command-line arguments in structopt.

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:

# Unix-like
$ export TELOXIDE_TOKEN=<Your token here>

# Windows command line
$ set TELOXIDE_TOKEN=<Your token here>

# Windows PowerShell
$ $env:TELOXIDE_TOKEN=<Your token here>

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

# If you're using stable
$ rustup update stable
$ rustup override set stable

# If you're using nightly
$ rustup update nightly
$ rustup override set nightly

5. Run cargo new my_bot, enter the directory and put these lines into your Cargo.toml:

[dependencies]
teloxide = { version = "0.7", features = ["macros", "auto-send"] }
log = "0.4"
pretty_env_logger = "0.4"
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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use teloxide::prelude::*;

#[tokio::main]
async fn main() {
    pretty_env_logger::init();
    log::info!("Starting dices_bot...");

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

    teloxide::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:

• /username <your username>
• /usernameandage <your username> <your age>
• /help

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use teloxide::{prelude::*, utils::command::BotCommands};

use std::error::Error;

#[tokio::main]
async fn main() {
    pretty_env_logger::init();
    log::info!("Starting simple_commands_bot...");

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

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

#[derive(BotCommands, 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<Bot>,
    message: Message,
    command: Command,
) -> Result<(), Box<dyn Error + Send + Sync>> {
    match command {
        Command::Help => {
            bot.send_message(message.chat.id, Command::descriptions().to_string()).await?
        }
        Command::Username(username) => {
            bot.send_message(message.chat.id, format!("Your username is @{username}.")).await?
        }
        Command::UsernameAndAge { username, age } => {
            bot.send_message(
                message.chat.id,
                format!("Your username is @{username} and age is {age}."),
            )
            .await?
        }
    };

    Ok(())
}

Dialogues management

A dialogue is typically described by an enumeration where each variant is one possible state of the dialogue. 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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use teloxide::{dispatching::dialogue::InMemStorage, prelude::*};

type MyDialogue = Dialogue<State, InMemStorage<State>>;
type HandlerResult = Result<(), Box<dyn std::error::Error + Send + Sync>>;

#[derive(Clone)]
pub enum State {
    Start,
    ReceiveFullName,
    ReceiveAge { full_name: String },
    ReceiveLocation { full_name: String, age: u8 },
}

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

#[tokio::main]
async fn main() {
    pretty_env_logger::init();
    log::info!("Starting dialogue_bot...");

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

    Dispatcher::builder(
        bot,
        Update::filter_message()
            .enter_dialogue::<Message, InMemStorage<State>, State>()
            .branch(teloxide::handler![State::Start].endpoint(start))
            .branch(teloxide::handler![State::ReceiveFullName].endpoint(receive_full_name))
            .branch(teloxide::handler![State::ReceiveAge { full_name }].endpoint(receive_age))
            .branch(
                teloxide::handler![State::ReceiveLocation { full_name, age }]
                    .endpoint(receive_location),
            ),
    )
    .dependencies(dptree::deps![InMemStorage::<State>::new()])
    .build()
    .setup_ctrlc_handler()
    .dispatch()
    .await;
}

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

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

    Ok(())
}

async fn receive_age(
    bot: AutoSend<Bot>,
    msg: Message,
    dialogue: MyDialogue,
    full_name: String, // Available from `State::ReceiveAge`.
) -> HandlerResult {
    match msg.text().map(|text| text.parse::<u8>()) {
        Some(Ok(age)) => {
            bot.send_message(msg.chat.id, "What's your location?").await?;
            dialogue.update(State::ReceiveLocation { full_name, age }).await?;
        }
        _ => {
            bot.send_message(msg.chat.id, "Send me a number.").await?;
        }
    }

    Ok(())
}

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

    Ok(())
}

More examples >>

FAQ

Q: Where I can ask questions?

A:

• Issues is a good place for well-formed questions about the library design, enhancements, and bug reports.
• GitHub Discussions is a place where you can ask us for help in a less formal manner.
• If you need quick help in real-time, you should ask a question in our official Telegram group.

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 a 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

Community bots

Feel free to propose your own bot to our collection!

• WaffleLapkin/crate_upd_bot -- A bot that notifies about crate updates.
• mxseev/logram -- Utility that takes logs from anywhere and sends them to Telegram.
• alexkonovalov/PedigreeBot -- A Telegram bot for building family trees.
• Hermitter/tepe -- A CLI to command a bot to send messages and files over Telegram.
• mattrighetti/GroupActivityBot -- Telegram bot that keeps track of user activity in groups.
• dracarys18/grpmr-rs -- A Telegram group manager bot with variety of extra features.
• steadylearner/subreddit_reader -- A bot that shows the latest posts at Rust subreddit.
• myblackbeard/basketball-betting-bot -- The bot lets you bet on NBA games against your buddies.
• ArtHome12/vzmuinebot -- Telegram bot for food menu navigate.
• ArtHome12/cognito_bot -- The bot is designed to anonymize messages to a group.
• pro-vim/tg-vimhelpbot -- Link :help for Vim in Telegram.
• sschiz/janitor-bot -- A bot that removes users trying to join to a chat that is designed for comments.
• slondr/BeerHolderBot -- A bot that holds your beer.
• MustafaSalih1993/Miss-Vodka-Telegram-Bot -- A Telegram bot written in rust using "Teloxide" library.
• x13a/tg-prompt -- Telegram prompt.
• magnickolas/remindee-bot -- Telegram bot for managing reminders.
• cyberknight777/knight-bot -- A Telegram bot with variety of fun features.
• wa7sa34cx/the-black-box-bot -- This is the Black Box Telegram bot. You can hold any items in it.
• crapstone/hsctt -- A Telegram bot that searches for HTTP status codes in all messages and replies with the text form.
• alenpaul2001/AurSearchBot -- Telegram bot for searching AUR in inline mode.

Contributing

See CONRIBUTING.md.