https://github.com/aldrinjenson/tg-querysearchbot

Telegram bot to make easy internet queries without leaving telegram.
https://github.com/aldrinjenson/tg-querysearchbot

aws-lambda nodejs serverless telegram-bot

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Telegram bot to make easy internet queries without leaving telegram.

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/aldrinjenson/tg-querysearchbot
• Owner: aldrinjenson
• Created: 2021-06-27T16:11:57.000Z (over 3 years ago)
• Default Branch: main
• Last Pushed: 2022-01-24T13:13:02.000Z (almost 3 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2023-03-03T22:02:52.521Z (over 1 year ago)
• Topics: aws-lambda, nodejs, serverless, telegram-bot
• Language: JavaScript
• Homepage: https://t.me/querySearchBot
• Size: 80.1 KB
• Stars: 2
• Watchers: 1
• Forks: 0
• Open Issues: 0
• Metadata Files:
  • Readme: README.md

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# tg-querySearchBot

### A bot for querying the internet directly from Telegram, written in nodeJS

Enter any query after a /qs for the top 3 results.

eg: /qs Software development best practices

You can get the top 1 result using /qs1 search_term

eg: /qs1 Nikola Tesla

You can also add this bot to groups and query using the same 2 commands

To try, check out [@querySearchBot](https://t.me/querySearchBot)

### Development

- The bot runs using serverless framework in AWS Lambda with Telegram webhooks

- For setting up webooks easily, refer this [article](https://xabaras.medium.com/setting-your-telegram-bot-webhook-the-easy-way-c7577b2d6f72)

  OR

  - GET webhook info: https://api.telegram.org/bot{BOT_TOKEN}/getWebhookInfo

  - SET Webhook: https://api.telegram.org/bot{BOT_TOKEN}/setWebhook?url={POST_url_received_after_lambda_deployment}

  - Delete Webhook: https://api.telegram.org/bot{BOT_TOKEN}/deleteWebhook

#### Some gotchas to keep in mind

- Serverless Lambda supports only NodeJS v12 for now. Any later features like conditional chaining in later versions of node is not currently supported.

- It is important that you return an object with statusCode 200 so that telegram understands that the query has been successfully answered.

- when you want to send JSON, ensure that you send it after stringifying it first

- For sending URLs sometime you may get the error `TypeError: Request path contains unescaped characters` which can be fixed using [this answer](https://stackoverflow.com/a/62437210/11879596)