README.md

go-telegram-bot-goland

This is a basic Telegram bot built using github copilot. It uses telebot module.

After you installed the Copilot plugin and enabled it, you can follow below steps to build your bot.

Create a new project, e.g. go-telegram-bot-goland

• add github.com/tucnak/telebot to your project by running go get -u gopkg.in/tucnak/telebot
• create a new file main.go in your project
• import tb "github.com/tucnak/telebot"
• in your main func() type bot, err := tb.NewBot( and press ALT+\ to invoke copilot.
• by pressing ALT+\ a few more times you can add error checking, command handlers and a call to Start() the bot.

To run the telegram bot:

• You need to use BotFather in Telegram to create a new bot and get its token.
• You'll use the token to create a bot instance.
• As a best practice, store the token in the environment variable TELEGRAM_BOT_TOKEN and in your code retrieve it from the environment.
  • Start the bot and interact with it in Telegram.