Telegram group chat trigger word for bot

[hamishm456]

Telegram is a great UI to share and use bots. Would be great if you could set a trigger word so you can add bots to group chats and they only respond when sentence begins with trigger word

[n4ze3m]

This is a great idea. I will look into it.

[JavierMariosa]

Sorry to comment on a kind of old issue, but it would also be a good idea for the bot to answer in a group when it's mentioned. I think Telegram forwards that kind of info to a bot. I also think that if the "trigger word" is the bot's @ then you can have both functions in one shot.

[n4ze3m]

Hey, the Dialoqbase Telegram bot now supports on group. Currently, it will respond in the group when you invoke #ask <message>. You can set a custom environment variable with the following: DQ_TG_GROUP_COMMAND