My first try for build a bot following this great tutorial Build A Telegram Bot with Laravel and BotMan by Rachid Laasri.

The project is based on:

• Laravel 5.6.
• BotMan Studio.
• Telegram Bot

• Docker.
• Ngrok.
• Robo (optional).

Follow the instructions for your OS: https://docs.docker.com/install/

$ git clone [email protected]:porloscerros/ilovedogs.git

$ cd ilovedogs

$ docker-compose up

$ cd src

$ docker-compose run composer install

$ sudo chown $USER:http ./storage -R

$ sudo chown $USER:http ./bootstrap/cache -R

$ find ./storage -type d -exec chmod 775 {} \;

$ find ./storage -type f -exec chmod 664 {} \;

$ find ./bootstrap/cache -type d -exec chmod 775 {} \;

Open the Telegram app and search for BotFather, type /newbot, enter the name the username for your bot and you are good to go.

Add this to your .env file and replace YOUR_TOKEN with the token Telegram gave you:

TELEGRAM_TOKEN=YOUR_TOKEN

Download and extract ngrok.

cd into ngrok folder and start it:

$ ./ngrok http 8080

Link the bot to Telegram $ curl -X POST -F 'url=https://{YOU_URL}/botman' https://api.telegram.org/bot{TOKEN}/setWebhook

Eg: $ curl -X POST -F 'url=https://80c2c170.ngrok.io/botman' https://api.telegram.org/bot999999999:ABCD123AbC1Ab1-1MAQ1yzAbCdEF1xyz1/setWebhook

you will find it at the address that BotFather gave you. Eg:

t.me/ILoveDogsBot

Send he one of the following commands:

/random.

/b {breed}. Eg: /b bulldog.

/s {breed}:{subBreed}. Eg: /s hound:afghan

Start Conversation

Check response to unrecognised commands:

/cat

$ docker-compose down

Install Robo globally:

$ composer global require consolidation/robo

If needed make an alias or add to PATH. Add in ~/.bashrc

$ alias robo='~/.config/composer/vendor/bin/robo'

and refresh bashrc:

$ source ~/.bashrc

Use it in /src folder. Eg:

$ robo up

$ robo composer install

$ robo artisan make:controller FallbackController

$ robo composer "require botman/driver-telegram"