This is a program that, using the Telegram **API**, can perform various actions in chats without a person.

What сhatbots сan't вo

Despite chatgpt capturing more and more users under its influence, chatbots are still poor at solving individual user queries and complaints. They won't find you new customers, and they won't help you save money either.

What is a telegram bot for?

Telegram bots can be used for various reasons. They are universal assistants in business, can provide a convenient format for interaction with clients or be an excellent platform for hosting a website or tool.

What is the difference between chat and channel in Telegram?

There is a difference between a chat and a channel, and they are quite significant. In a channel, there is one-way communication between the creator and the audience, in chats, everyone communicates as equals. In all other respects, chats are lighter than channels. So there is no audience limit in channels, in chats up to 200 thousand.

How to make an inline telegram bot

10.01.2025

Introduction

In this article I will show how the inline telegram bot works, how to send responses, and how to set up these responses. You will also learn how to set up translations for your bot, and of course you will be able to test my bot, @joker_gut_bot

What is the point of the inline mode of bots? The point is that the user can send bot responses on his behalf to any chats. Some bots are embedded in the telegram itself, for example:

And of course you can make your own if needed.

Preparing and installing the necessary packages

We will need the following packages:

aiogram library
Babel library

The first one is needed for communication and work with the Telegram API. The Babel library is required for translations.

pip install Babel aiogram pandas

I store the bot token in a separate file called .env, make it. It contains only one line: BOT_TOKEN=1111111111:AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

Hopefully by now you have a bot token and a virtual environment for it. Never install python packages without a corresponding virtual environment.

You can see the complete, basic setup of the telegram bot (and token too) in this article.

Writing an inline bot

Let's move on to writing the bot itself. In the main.py file, import the following modules:

import asyncio

import logging

import sys

import uuid

from aiogram import F

from aiogram.types import Message, InlineQuery, InlineQueryResultArticle, InputTextMessageContent, InlineQueryResultPhoto

from aiogram.filters import Command

from config import bot_dispatcher, bot

After that, at the end, we add an entry point and standard handlers to launch the application and to help with its functionality:

@bot_dispatcher.message(Command('help'))

async def help(message: Message):

await message.answer("Этот бот является примером того, как можно реализовать inline функционал для него.")

await message.answer("/startapp - запустить приложение")

await message.answer("@joker_gut_bot memes - запросить мемы для показа")

await message.answer("@joker_gut_bot greeting - запросить ответы по умолчанию")

@bot_dispatcher.message(Command("startapp"))

async def start_app(message: Message):

await message.answer("Этот бот является примером того, как можно реализовать inline функционал для него.")

async def main() -> None:

await bot_dispatcher.start_polling(bot)

if __name__ == "__main__":

logging.basicConfig(level=logging.INFO, stream=sys.stdout)

asyncio.run(main())

Now in the config.py file we add the token importer and the default router, bot_dispatcher:

from aiogram import Bot, Dispatcher

# Read the file and send a token to dispatcher

with open(".env", "r") as file:

buffer = file.read()

line_pos = buffer.find("BOT_TOKEN")

TOKEN = buffer[buffer.find("=", line_pos) + 1:]

bot = Bot(TOKEN)

bot_dispatcher = Dispatcher(bot=bot)

The bot skeleton is ready. And it can even be launched, but it does not provide any functionality yet. Now let's start adding inline bot functionality to it. Telegram supports 20 inline responses in total:

InlineQueryResultCachedAudio
InlineQueryResultCachedDocument
InlineQueryResultCachedGif
InlineQueryResultCachedMpeg4Gif
InlineQueryResultCachedPhoto
InlineQueryResultCachedSticker
InlineQueryResultCachedVideo
InlineQueryResultCachedVoice
InlineQueryResultAudio
InlineQueryResultDocument
InlineQueryResultGif
InlineQueryResultMpeg4Gif
InlineQueryResultPhoto
InlineQueryResultVideo
InlineQueryResultVoice
InlineQueryResultContact
InlineQueryResultGame
InlineQueryResultLocation
InlineQueryResultArticle
InlineQueryResultVenue

As you can see, there are three groups of responses. The first with the Cached root, which means the bot will take data from the database. The second group without the Cached root. They use links as a data source. And the third group consists of those responses that have no analogue with Cached.

I will show the work of inline bots using the example of InlineQueryResultArticle and InlineQueryResulltPhoto. Let's add the following functions to main.py:

import asyncio

import logging

import sys

import uuid

from aiogram import F

from aiogram.types import Message, InlineQuery, InlineQueryResultArticle, InputTextMessageContent, InlineQueryResultPhoto

from aiogram.filters import Command

from config import bot_dispatcher, bot

@bot_dispatcher.inline_query(F.query == "greeting")

async def send_greetings(inline_query: InlineQuery):

results = []

results.append(InlineQueryResultArticle(

id=str(uuid.uuid4()),

title="Обычное приветствие",

input_message_content=InputTextMessageContent(

disable_web_page_preview=True,

message_text="Приветствую я вас сегодня."

)

))

results.append(InlineQueryResultArticle(

id=str(uuid.uuid4()),

title="Жёсткое приветствие",

input_message_content=InputTextMessageContent(

disable_web_page_preview=True,

message_text="Ну чё, как дела"

)

))

results.append(InlineQueryResultArticle(

id=str(uuid.uuid4()),

title="Спокойное приветствие",

input_message_content=InputTextMessageContent(

disable_web_page_preview=True,

message_text="Привет"

)

))

await inline_query.answer(results)

@bot_dispatcher.inline_query(F.query == "memes")

async def send_user_images(inline_query: InlineQuery):

results = []

results.append(InlineQueryResultPhoto(

id=str(uuid.uuid4()),

        photo_url="https://wisconsinskydivingcenter.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/you-dont-need-a-parachute-to-go-skydiving-meme.jpeg",

        thumbnail_url="https://wisconsinskydivingcenter.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/you-dont-need-a-parachute-to-go-skydiving-meme.jpeg"

))

results.append(InlineQueryResultPhoto(

id=str(uuid.uuid4()),

        photo_url="https://jungleroots.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/1_OkVxoXBTygSKB8K-zbB7uQ-300x176.jpeg",

        thumbnail_url="https://jungleroots.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/1_OkVxoXBTygSKB8K-zbB7uQ-300x176.jpeg"

))

results.append(InlineQueryResultPhoto(

id=str(uuid.uuid4()),

        photo_url="https://livestorm.imgix.net/1127/1651607695-obi-wan-alarm-work-meme.jpeg?h=auto&w=730&fm=jpeg&auto=format&q=90&dpr=1",

        thumbnail_url="https://livestorm.imgix.net/1127/1651607695-obi-wan-alarm-work-meme.jpeg?h=auto&w=730&fm=jpeg&auto=format&q=90&dpr=1"

))

await inline_query.answer(results)

@bot_dispatcher.message(Command('help'))

async def help(message: Message):

await message.answer("Этот бот является примером того, как можно реализовать inline функционал для него.")

await message.answer("/startapp - запустить приложение")

await message.answer("@joker_gut_bot memes - запросить мемы для показа")

await message.answer("@joker_gut_bot greeting - запросить ответы по умолчанию")

@bot_dispatcher.message(Command("startapp"))

async def start_app(message: Message):

await message.answer("Этот бот является примером того, как можно реализовать inline функционал для него.")

async def main() -> None:

await bot_dispatcher.start_polling(bot)

if __name__ == "__main__":

logging.basicConfig(level=logging.INFO, stream=sys.stdout)

asyncio.run(main())

The send_greetings handler is called when the user writes greeting after the bot name. All it does is combine 3 InlineQueryResultArticles into the list and return the user's answer to choose from. Like this:

The send_user_images handler does the same thing, only with images, InlineQueryResultArticle.

The Telegram bot is ready. All that's left is to deploy it on the server, and voila, your new assistant is ready. I wrote about how to do this in a separate article, ooo, here it is. You can read more about it here.

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Conclusions

I tried to make the article about inline bots as simple as possible and not overloaded with any databases or translations. But I eventually included translations ◑﹏◐. You can find all the bot files and resources on the corresponding tools page. Cheers.

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How to make an inline telegram bot

Introduction

Preparing and installing the necessary packages

Writing an inline bot

Translate (optional)

Conclusions

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