Telegram Subscriber for Laravel

The package provides a solution for retrieving chat ID.

Installation and setup

Package uses irazasyed/telegram-bot-sdk. So above all follow Telegram Bot SDK instructions and set up your first Telegram Bot. Most likely you need to run:

php artisan vendor:publish --tag="telegram-config"

In config/telegram.php configuration file add bot name parameter and register DeeplinkCommand. You may not define webhook_url as it will be reconfigured on a fly.

# config/telegram.php

'bots' => [
    'my_bot' => [
        'name'             => env('TELEGRAM_BOT_NAME'),
        'token'            => env('TELEGRAM_BOT_TOKEN'),
        'certificate_path' => env('TELEGRAM_CERTIFICATE_PATH'),
        //'webhook_url'      => env('TELEGRAM_WEBHOOK_URL'),
        'commands'         => [
            \Codewiser\Telegram\Commands\DeeplinkCommand::class
        ],
    ],
]

Retrieving chat ID

Implement \Codewiser\Telegram\Contracts\TelegramNotifiable to a User model. You might need to write a migration...

use \Illuminate\Notifications\Notifiable;
use \Illuminate\Database\Eloquent\Model;
use \Codewiser\Telegram\Contracts\TelegramNotifiable;

class User extends Model implements TelegramNotifiable
{
    use Notifiable;
    
    public function routeNotificationForTelegram($notification = null): mixed
    {
        return $this->telegram_user_id;
    }

    public function setRouteForTelegram($route): void
    {
        $this->telegram_user_id = $route;
        
        $this->save();
    }
}

Now, create service to implement \Codewiser\Telegram\Contracts\TelegramNotifiableProvider. This is an example of implementation, your may implement it however you like.

use \Codewiser\Telegram\Contracts\TelegramNotifiableProvider;

class TelegramUserProvider implements TelegramNotifiableProvider
{
    /**
     * Issue and remember new token for a given notifiable.
     */
    public function generateToken(TelegramNotifiable $notifiable): string
    {
        $token = Str::random(40);

        cache()->set(
            $token,
            [
                'key'   => $notifiable->getKey(),
                'model' => get_class($notifiable),
            ],
            now()->addMinutes(5)
        );

        return $token;
    }
    
    /**
     * Find notifiable associated with a given token.
     */
    public function resolveToken(string $token): ?TelegramNotifiable
    {
        $notifiable = cache()->pull($token);

        if ($notifiable) {
            $key = $notifiable['key'];
            $model = $notifiable['model'];
            
            return $model::find($key);
        }

        return null;
    }
}

At last, register this service in AppServiceProvider of your application

public function register()
{
    $this->app->singleton(TelegramNotifiableProvider::class, fn() => new TelegramUserProvider);
}

We are ready to go.

Getting updates

Register webhook

If you are properly configure bot in config/telegram.php this is enough to use telegram:webhook command provided by Telegram Bot SDK package. We recommend to read help:

php artisan help telegram:webhook

This package provides webhook controller to deal with incoming messages.

For example DeeplinkCommand, that was mentioned above, used to handle /start command with deeplink token.

You are free to add any other command handlers to config/telegram.php.

Read more about Bot Commands.

Long polling

This package brings telegram:poll command to get updates without registering webhook. Just call a command.

Usage

Subscribe user

First, we need to issue a deeplink for a user.

use \Illuminate\Http\Request;
use \Codewiser\Telegram\TelegramService;

class DeeplinkController extends Controller
{
    public function __invoke(Request $request, TelegramService $service) {
        return $service->getDeeplink($request->user());
    }
}

User follows deeplink, opens telegram client and presses Start button.

Codewiser\Telegram\Commands\DeeplinkCommand handles incoming update, resolves deeplink token and update User with chat_id.

For now, this user has telegram route and may be notified via Telegram.