Building a Telegram Bot with Cloudflare Workers, Durable Objects and Grammy (opens in new tab)

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41 pointsflashblaze1mo ago7 comments

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Cute blog post. I would suggest to not use wrappers for building Telegram bots, and instead learn how it actually works. State management can be complex when building menus.

sixhobbits1mo ago

yeah I've built a bunch of small and medium bots and every time I've tried to use a library I've run into way more problems than just using the telegram API directly, which is definitely one of the nicer APIs I've used

And between the really good docs and thousands of community wrappers, the agents can usually one-shot complex Telegram-API related features too.

flashblazeOP1mo ago

Will definitely give that a try next time

gowthamgts121mo ago

> Not everything has to be AI

well, not everything has to be workers or serverless :)

flashblazeOP1mo ago

Haha. Been enjoying developing on the Workers platform. Can't go back now, lol.

p1anecrazy1mo ago

Interesting, reminds me of building bots with Lambdas and GCP Cloud functions when they were a thing.

I find sharing current location a bit of an overkill to get a user‘s timezone. What‘s your take on that?

flashblazeOP1mo ago

Yes. It is a bit overkill. But I did not find a "better" and reliable way to get timezone from the user.

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koakuma-chan1mo ago

Cute blog post. I would suggest to not use wrappers for building Telegram bots, and instead learn how it actually works. State management can be complex when building menus.

sixhobbits1mo ago

And between the really good docs and thousands of community wrappers, the agents can usually one-shot complex Telegram-API related features too.

flashblazeOP1mo ago

Will definitely give that a try next time

gowthamgts121mo ago

> Not everything has to be AI

well, not everything has to be workers or serverless :)

flashblazeOP1mo ago

Haha. Been enjoying developing on the Workers platform. Can't go back now, lol.

p1anecrazy1mo ago

Interesting, reminds me of building bots with Lambdas and GCP Cloud functions when they were a thing.

I find sharing current location a bit of an overkill to get a user‘s timezone. What‘s your take on that?

flashblazeOP1mo ago

Yes. It is a bit overkill. But I did not find a "better" and reliable way to get timezone from the user.

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