Serverless Telegram Bot on AWS

A NodeJS Telegram bot deployed using Pulumi.

Frameworks Used

• Telegraf Bot Framework
• Pulumi

Requirements

• Pulumi configured.
• A Telegram account.

Installation

• Install Pulumi.

• Install the required dependencies.

npm install

• Build the Lambda functions.

npm run build

• Create a Telegram bot using @BotFather.

• Create a new Pulumi stack.

pulumi stack init <stack_name>

• Configure the AWS region you want to deploy into.

pulumi config set aws:region <aws_region>

• Add the Telegram Bot token received as a secret to Pulumi config

pulumi config set tgBotToken <your_token> --secret

• Deploy the application.

pulumi up

• You can check the bot's status with the /health endpoint.

curl $(pulumi stack output apiUrl)/health

• Using set-webhook endpoint, register the bot's webhook on Telegram

curl -X POST $(pulumi stack output apiUrl)/set-webhook

Usage

Now you can /start a conversation with the bot.

Removal

• To delete the project from AWS.

pulumi destroy

• Talk to @BotFather to delete the bot.

Acknowledgements

• Serverless Telegram Bot - Python Example
• Telegram notifications bot with Firebase Cloud Functions