Receiving Messages and Buttons

[mikolajzawadzki]

Hey, I am currently working on a project using node-red-node-telegrambot, and I have encountered a challenge with receiving messages and button interactions from a Telegram bot.

My goal is to configure the telegram client receiver node to listen for and process messages and button clicks (inline keyboard) sent by the bot to a user. However, I am not sure how to set up the node correctly to capture these interactions, especially the button clicks.

Could you please provide guidance on the following points:

1. How can I configure the telegram client receiver node to receive messages sent by the bot to a user?
2. Is it possible to capture and handle button clicks (from inline keyboards) using the telegram client receiver node? If so, how can this be achieved?
3. Are there any specific settings or considerations that I should be aware of to ensure that the communication between the bot and Node-RED is seamless?

I would appreciate any examples or documentation you could share that would assist me in setting up these functionalities.

Thank you for your time and assistance. I look forward to your response.

Best regards,
Miko

[windkh]

Hello @mikolajzawadzki
there are plenty of videos on youtube with tutorials mainly about IOT and homeautomation. Just google for it.
Now about your questions one by one:

1. the receiver outputs messages received by chats which can be one-to-one user chats or event messages from channel or group chats.
   The message object contains the chatId of the chat, the type of message and of course the message content. You can either filter for a specific chatId in the node-red flow or you can just configure the receiver to only output messages from specific chats. See readme.md in the root folder of the project.

2. There are a few examples that make use of a key board in the example folder
   https://github.com/windkh/node-red-contrib-telegrambot/blob/master/examples/inlinekeyboard.json
   https://github.com/windkh/node-red-contrib-telegrambot/blob/master/examples/editinlinekeyboard.json
   https://github.com/windkh/node-red-contrib-telegrambot/blob/master/examples/keyboard.json
   https://github.com/windkh/node-red-contrib-telegrambot/blob/master/examples/basicinlinekeyboard.json
   https://github.com/windkh/node-red-contrib-telegrambot/blob/master/examples/basiccustomkeyboard.json
   Just take one of those example as a starting point for your challenge.

3. I think it is straight forward. Nothing to be worried about.
   If you are searching for a more advanced thing: you can interact with a webapp directly:
   https://github.com/windkh/node-red-contrib-telegrambot/blob/master/examples/webappdata.json

good luck!

[mikolajzawadzki]

It seems that I may have phrased my question poorly and asked it in a way that was too broad. My apologies for that. I am specifically interested in communication with bots on Telegram. Could you please take a look at my workflow and guide me on where I might be making a mistake? I'm logging in as a user and want to receive messages from a Telegram bot.

Here's my example:

[{"id":"c2725f3a92f1395f","type":"telegram client receiver","z":"e0f7c6eee4580964","name":"from bot test","bot":"f26912c50cb14023","sendrawevents":true,"sendnewmessage":false,"sendeditedmessage":false,"senddeletedmessage":false,"sendalbum":false,"sendcallbackquery":false,"x":750,"y":1120,"wires":[["bce811e49b16b59e"]]},{"id":"c73611046ca72228","type":"debug","z":"e0f7c6eee4580964","name":"debug 1","active":true,"tosidebar":true,"console":false,"tostatus":false,"complete":"true","targetType":"full","statusVal":"","statusType":"auto","x":1380,"y":1120,"wires":[]},{"id":"bce811e49b16b59e","type":"switch","z":"e0f7c6eee4580964","name":"from https://t.me/hyper_trade_bot","property":"payload.peer.userId","propertyType":"msg","rules":[{"t":"eq","v":"6543763138","vt":"str"}],"checkall":"true","repair":false,"outputs":1,"x":1070,"y":1120,"wires":[["c73611046ca72228"]]},{"id":"f26912c50cb14023","type":"telegram client config","botname":"mikowhy","verboselogging":true,"loginmode":"user","useproxy":false,"usewss":false,"host":"","sockstype":"5","port":"6667","username":"anonymous","password":"","secret":"","mtproxy":false,"timeout":"2"}]

I'm unable to receive any message content from the bot. I've tried configuring the telegram client receiver node in various ways, but to no avail.

In the Debug, I only have this information:

{"type":"Raw","payload":{"peer":{"userId":"6543763138","className":"PeerUser"},"maxId":180352,"pts":400685,"ptsCount":1,"className":"UpdateReadHistoryOutbox"},"_msgid":"d6f5e04d866dfd09"}

{"type":"Raw","payload":{"flags":0,"folderId":null,"peer":{"userId":"6543763138","className":"PeerUser"},"maxId":180353,"stillUnreadCount":0,"pts":400687,"ptsCount":1,"className":"UpdateReadHistoryInbox"},"_msgid":"d16e12f884e8b06e"}

I have asked whether it is possible to receive messages from a bot because I can't configure it in a way that allows me to see any content of the messages the bot sends.

[windkh]

you obviously used the package node-red-node-telegrambot which is quite new and makes use of the mtproto api. This is advanced stuff: you can let act a bot in your own name so that others think the message comes directly from you.

I guess that you rather want to create a bot that has its own name in chats so that you can write message to that bot.... to accomplish that you need to install node-red-contrib-telegrambot

[mikolajzawadzki]

I have a question regarding the repository where I'm posting this query. It concerns the node-red-node-telegrambot and not the node-red-contrib-telegrambot repository.

My objective is to have Node-RED interact with an existing bot on my behalf, with me logged in as a user. My issue is that I'm uncertain about how to retrieve message content from the bot. Could you please guide me on how to achieve this?

[windkh]

There is a simple sample in the examples folder of node-red-node-telegrambot how to receive and send messages. In theory all mtproto functions should work however I did not test complex things like keyboards for now as this package is quite new.

Did you manage to get this sample up and running?

[mikolajzawadzki]

Yes. The basic functionalities are working fine without any issues. I can send and receive messages from other users. However, what I'm unable to do is:

• Receive messages from an existing bot,
• Receive posts from channels - here, I suspect there is no event handling. In the second repository - node-red-contrib-telegrambot, there's a separate node for that - events.