How to create and connect Telegram chat-bot?
- If you don't have a Telegram account yet, create it on web.telegram.org/#/login
- Run Telegram app and search @BotFather in the search bar. Choose the bot with the same avatar as on the screenshot. Click START button at the bottom of the window
- The bot sends us a list of commands that can be used while working with him. We need to create a bot so let's send him a /newbot text.
- Then bot is asking to provide a name of a new bot. Send him the name in the message.
- Now BotFather is asking to provide a username for your bot. The username should ends with bot. Send the username of your bot.
- BotFather sends us a token. Copy it.
- Go to Settings → Channels & Businesses on the Leeloo.ai platform
- Click the Telegram icon on the top panel and paste the copied token in the appeared field.
Click Connect button.
If you encountered an error "This token is invalid, please insert another token" when connecting a bot, check:
1) No spaces is placed before and after the token.
2) Is any special symbol is added to the token which is invisible and provoke a conflict. You can check it using Developer tools (Ctrl+Shift+I in Chrome Browser) and pasting the token into the console line. If beyond symbols of the token you can see a red point - the special symbol is added. Delete it.