Tourmaline

Telegram Bot API framework written in Crystal. Based heavily off of Telegraf this Crystal implementation allows your Telegram bot to be written in a language that's both beautiful and fast. Benchmarks coming soon.

If you want to extend your bot by using NLP, see my other library Cadmium.

Installation

Add this to your application's shard.yml:

dependencies:
  tourmaline:
    github: protoncr/tourmaline
    branch: master

Usage

API documentation is also available here.

Examples are available in the examples folder.

Just for README purposes though, let's look at the echo bot example:

require "tourmaline"

class EchoBot < Tourmaline::Client
  @[Command("echo")]
  def echo_command(ctx)
    ctx.message.reply(ctx.text)
  end
end

bot = EchoBot.new(bot_token: ENV["API_KEY"])
bot.poll

Development

This currently supports the following features:

• Client API
  • Implementation examples
  • Easy command syntax
  • Robust middleware system
  • Standard API queries
  • Stickers
  • Inline mode
  • Long polling
  • Webhooks
  • Payments
  • Games
  • Polls
  • Telegram Passport
• HTTP/HTTP Proxies

If you want a new feature feel free to submit an issue or open a pull request.

Who's Using Tourmaline

If you're using Tourmaline and would like to have your bot added to this list, just submit a PR!

• PixieImageBot
• Utilibot

Contributing

1. Fork it ( https://github.com/protoncr/tourmaline/fork )
2. Create your feature branch (git checkout -b my-new-feature)
3. Commit your changes (git commit -am 'Add some feature')
4. Push to the branch (git push origin my-new-feature)
5. Create a new Pull Request

Contributors

• watzon Chris Watson - creator, maintainer