> Markdown rendition of https://www.voiceflow.com/stories/how-to-create-a-simple-telegram-bot-with-voiceflow ("How to create a simple Telegram bot with Voiceflow"). Canonical page: https://www.voiceflow.com/stories/how-to-create-a-simple-telegram-bot-with-voiceflow · All pages: https://www.voiceflow.com/llms.txt [Virtual product launch, Oct 6: get a first look at our new AI co-pilot for CX teams.Own your CX · Oct 6 Save your spot](https://www.voiceflow.com/events/own-your-cx) [← Stories](https://www.voiceflow.com/stories)/[Devs](https://www.voiceflow.com/stories-categories/developers) # How to create a simple Telegram bot with Voiceflow Hook up your Voiceflow conversations to your very own Telegram bot in a few minutes: how to create a simple Telegram bot with Voiceflow. 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With Voiceflow's new Dialog Manager API, the conversation design platform stands as the best choice for designing, developing, and integrating a Telegram chatbot. ## Prerequisites Here is what you'll need to create your very own Telegram bot using Voiceflow 1. Telegram Account 2. Voiceflow Account 3. Visual Studio Code ## Architecture In this example, we are going to use the Telegraf library for NodeJS projects to interact with our Telegram Bot. As mentioned above, every user interaction in the Telegram bot will be sent to Voiceflow using our Dialog Manager API. ![The architecture used to create a Voiceflow Telegram Bot](https://www.voiceflow.com/images/659e9aedf01948b7100c417d_60c7c609b9a94855cfe6ff59_1.png) The architecture used to create this experience ## Create your own bot with BotFather First, we need to use [botfather](https://core.telegram.org/bots#) to create our very own bot inside Telegram. BotFather allows you to create new bot accounts and manage existing ones in a few simple clicks. To start the process of creating your bot, you just need to talk to the botfather while following the steps outlined below[.](https://core.telegram.org/bots#) To open a chat with botfather, click on the "**start**" button. We'll need to create a new bot by clicking /newbot command. Next, you can name your bot. In this example, we have named ours "Voiceflow bot". It's that easy. The Telegram setup is now complete! Remember to add your Telegram token to your {% c-line %}.env file{% c-line-end %} in the property {% c-line %}TELEGRAM_TOKEN{% c-line-end %}. ## Setting up the project Install and run the project: 1. Clone this repo: {% c-line %}git clone \{% c-line-end %} 1. Install dependencies: {% c-line %}yarn install{% c-line-end %} 1. Launch project: {% c-line %}yarn start{% c-line-end %} ## Writing the bot’s code ### Telegraf setup We can create bot by the following code lines: ![Writing the Telegram Bot's code](https://www.voiceflow.com/images/659e9aedf01948b7100c4177_60c8feb92eed515f5adafd55_5.png) ### Voiceflow setup **NOTE:** It's important to note that you will need to create a General Project type on Voiceflow for this experience to work. Now, let's implement the Voiceflow client to work with Voiceflow's cloud using its Dialog Manager API. ![Implementing the Voiceflow client](https://www.voiceflow.com/images/659e9aedf01948b7100c418a_60c8fe3bc2241c81b06bfd02_1.png) The {% c-line %}getclient(){% c-line-end %} function calls the {% c-line %}DialogManagerApi.getInstance{% c-line-end %} a REST API client that will interact directly with the Dialog Manager API. As you can see there are some values that will be added to our {% c-line %}.env{% c-line-end %} file. Let's explain how to obtain those variables. #### 1. Version ID To obtain your VersionID you have to go to your Voiceflow Project: ![Obtain your VersionID in Voiceflow](https://www.voiceflow.com/images/659e9aedf01948b7100c4184_60c7db599d6fa3ea7ee90035_5.png) Then copy the {% c-line %}VOICEFLOW_VERSION_ID{% c-line-END %} from the URL in your address bar. When you are inside a Voiceflow project, your address bar should have a URL of the form: {% c-line %}https://creator.voiceflow.com/project/{VOICEFLOW_VERSION_ID}/...{% c-line-end %} #### **2. apiKey ** To obtain the API Key we have to go to our workspace where we have created our General Project. After this, head to workplace settings and click on the developer tab. ![You can find the API key in workplace settings](https://www.voiceflow.com/images/659e9aecdb5c99b1237858e6_60c304e0dcc1db5adf9191c1_5.png) Then we have to click to {% c-line %}Create new API Key{% c-line-end %} button to create a new one: ![Give your API key a name](https://www.voiceflow.com/images/659e9aebdb5c99b1237858d0_60c3052bc8bb233b68a18448_6.png) You need to add a name to the new API Key, for example, {% c-line %}telegram-bot{% c-line-end %}. Once we have filled it, we can click the {% c-line %}Confirm{% c-line-end %} button: ![Your new API key is then stored in your project](https://www.voiceflow.com/images/659e9aedf01948b7100c4194_60c7dc99aceecfa6ab4cc65f_6.png) Finally, we have to add these variables to our final {% c-line %}.env file{% c-line-end %}. It should look like this: ![Adding variables to our final .env file](https://www.voiceflow.com/images/659e9aedf01948b7100c4187_60c8fee93cba4220d764bd71_2.png) Everything is ready. Let's continue with our Telegram bot code. Let's replace the standard start replay for the one below, getting the correct replay from Voiceflow: Then we replace the {% c-line %}hi{% c-line-end %} utterance for a regex like {% c-line %}(.+){% c-line-end %}. This means that the bot will hear for everything. All the text received we will pass directly to Voiceflow and we manage the state of the conversation: if it is ended or if it is not ended yet: The response method is in charge of sending the user input in Telegram to Voiceflow using the runtime client SDK. This allows us to process the response: In the example above you'll notice different types of responses including {% c-line %}SPEAK{% c-line-end %}, {% c-line %}VISUAL{% c-line-end %} and {% c-line %}AUDIO{% c-line-end %}responses. ## Running the Telegram Bot ![Telegram bot connected to Voiceflow](https://www.voiceflow.com/images/659e9aedf01948b7100c4180_60c7dfd9d97b9d576660e90b_11.png) You're all set to test this experience in Telegram ### Help us help you Interested in helping us improve this experience? You can submit a PR by following the steps below. 1. Fork this repo 2. Clone your fork 3. Code 4. 🤓 5. Test your changes 6. Submit a PR! ### Resources - [Official Telegraf Documentation](https://www.npmjs.com/package/ask-sdk) - The Official Telegraf Documentation - [Official Voiceflow's Runtime Dialog Manager Documentation](https://www.voiceflow.com/api/dialog-manager) - Official Voiceflow Dialog Manager API - To access all of the code mentioned above, click [here](https://github.com/xavidop/telegram-voiceflow-api-bot) ⚙️ ### Conclusion As you can see, with just 60 lines of code you can quickly bring your chat experiences to life. I hope this gives you a better understanding of how you can use Voicefow to bring conversational experiences into your very own interfaces and products. Happy coding! ### Voiceflow is Hiring! 📢 > Voiceflow is looking for more people who are excited to build the future of interactive conversations. [You can visit this link to apply](https://www.voiceflow.com/about#Jobs). 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