Code: https://github.com/dtchanpura/blurblurbot Bot: https://t.me/blurblurbot

1. Blurblurbot
A meaningless Telegram Bot in Golang.
Darshil Chanpura
github.com/dtchanpura
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2. What does this Bot do?
Blurs the Background of image.
Accepts some options related to scaling and how much to blur.
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and nothing more...
Background from Tapet Wallpaper Android App, Blurred by @blurblurbot 2

3. What is Telegram Bot API?
Telegram Messenger has an inbuilt API for Bots
https://api.telegram.org
Create a Bot
Start a chat with @BotFather in Telegram Messenger
It will guide for creating a Bot and will provide a Token for
accessing its API.
Using the API
Send a GET request to
https://api.telegram.org/botMY_BOT_TOKEN/getMe
where MY_BOT_TOKEN is your bot token received from
@BotFather
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4. How can I get/process messages received
by bot?
Polling:
getUpdates is a basic method to access recent messages.
Webhooks:
This is a common practice.
Can be set by calling setWebhook method with params
Status of webhook by getWebhookInfo method
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5. Methods available
sendMessage
sendPhoto
sendLocation
sendDocument
sendSticker
sendInvoice : Payments
sendGame : Games
and many more available at https://core.telegram.org/bots/api
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6. How does it actually work?
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7. How should it be used?
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8. Inspiration to write the code in Golang
Compiled language
Concurrent Programming
Portablity
Cool thing to write in Resume
Ref: https://www.quora.com/What‑advantages‑does‑the‑Go‑
programming‑language‑have‑over‑Python‑or‑vice‑versa
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9. What does the Project uses?
Image manipulation library image
Some third party libraries
github.com/esimov/stackblur‑go
github.com/disintegration/imaging
Go routines for processing and sending photos asynchronously.
Build creates an executable file by running
go get github.com/dtchanpura/blurblurbot
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10. Demo
https://vimeo.com/241223425
Blurblurblot - a
Meaningless Telegram
bot in Golang
from dcprime
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11. Code
$ tree $GOPATH/src/github.com/dtchanpura/blurblurbot/
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├── Makefile
├── README.md
├── bin
│ ├── blurblurbot
├── bot
│ ├── config.go
│ ├── functions.go
│ ├── handlers.go
│ ├── methods.go
│ ├── routines.go
│ ├── run.go
│ ├── types.go
│ ├── updates.go
│ ├── updates_test.go
│ └── version.go
├── env.sh
└── main.go
2 directories, 15 files
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12. Thank You.
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0
International License.
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