Introduction

Hello to everyone who has been looking for a long time how to do basic actions for your telegram bot! This tutorial will cover the implementation of the basic functions that you need to perform a simple bot.

I assume you already know Java programming language.

If you got here and don't have any idea how to develop a bot, then I recommend starting with Lesson 0 description creating a bot in telegram, namely working with BotFather

In this tutorial I will use next characteristics:

• My home macOS laptop with IntelliJ Idea pre-installed

• Java JDK 18

If you have any suggestions, what lessons you would like to see here, write issue or contact me!

Table of contents

• Lesson 0. Creating a bot description creating a bot in telegram, namely working with BotFather

• Lesson 1. Send messages description of sending the message to the user

• Lesson 2. Reply Keyboard Markups creating buttons in the keyboard field

• Lesson 3. Send Photo sending a photo from a local directory

• Lesson 4. Send Music sending a track from a local directory

• Lesson 5. Save photo/file saving the sent photo or file to a local directory

Useful sources

• Telegram Bot API from the telegram itself
• Java Library to download it to your IDE
• Tutorial from rubenlagus
• Emoji Manager to use all the emojis that are in telegram