Telegram Bot API for PHP

The package provides a simple and convenient way to interact with the Telegram Bot API.

✔️ Telegram Bot API 8.1 (December 4, 2024) is fully supported.

Requirements

• PHP 8.2 or higher.

Installation

The package can be installed with Composer:

composer require vjik/telegram-bot-api

General usage

To make requests to the Telegram Bot API, you need to create an instance of the TelegramBotApi class that requires an instance of the TelegramClientInterface implementation. Out of the box, the package provides PsrTelegramClient based on the PSR-18 HTTP client and PSR-17 HTTP factories.

For example, you can use the php-http/curl-client and httpsoft/http-message:

composer require php-http/curl-client httpsoft/http-message

In this case, a TelegramBotApi instance can be created as follows:

use Http\Client\Curl\Client;
use HttpSoft\Message\RequestFactory;
use HttpSoft\Message\ResponseFactory;
use HttpSoft\Message\StreamFactory;
use Vjik\TelegramBot\Api\Client\PsrTelegramClient;
use Vjik\TelegramBot\Api\TelegramBotApi;

// Telegram bot authentication token
$token = '110201543:AAHdqTcvCH1vGWJxfSeofSAs0K5PALDsaw';

// Dependencies
$streamFactory = new StreamFactory();
$responseFactory = new ResponseFactory();
$requestFactory = new RequestFactory();
$client = new Client($responseFactory, $streamFactory);

// API
$api = new TelegramBotApi(
    new PsrTelegramClient(
        $token,
        $client,
        $requestFactory,
        $streamFactory,
    ),
);

Now you can use the $api instance to interact with the Telegram Bot API. Method names are the same as in the Telegram Bot API documentation. For example:

use Vjik\TelegramBot\Api\Type\InputFile

// Specify a URL for outgoing webhook
$api->setWebhook('https://example.com/webhook');

// Send text message
$api->sendMessage(
    chatId: 22351, 
    text: 'Hello, world!',
);

// Send local photo
$api->sendPhoto(
    chatId: 22351, 
    photo: InputFile::fromLocalFile('/path/to/photo.jpg'),
);

The result will be either a FailResult instance (occuring on an error) or an object of the corresponding type (occuring on success). For example:

// Result is an array of `Vjik\TelegramBot\Api\Update\Update` objects
$updates = $api->getUpdates();

Documentation

• Logging
• Webhook handling
• Custom requests
• Internals

If you have any questions or problems with this package, use author telegram chat for communication.

License

The vjik/telegram-bot-api is free software. It is released under the terms of the BSD License. Please see LICENSE for more information.

Credits

The package is inspired by Botasis code originally created by Viktor Babanov.