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The laravel-telegram package provides a seamless integration between Laravel applications and the Telegram Bot API. It enables developers to easily build Telegram bots with clean, expressive Laravel syntax, and supports features such as:

• Bot creation and registration via Artisan
• Webhook management
• Command-based architecture
• Automatic injection of Telegram update data (Chat, Message, CallbackQuery, etc.)
• Full support for Laravel queues

🚀 Installation

Install the package using Composer:

composer require romanlazko/laravel-telegram

Optional: Publish Migrations

php artisan vendor:publish --tag=laravel-telegram-migrations

🤖 Create a Bot

Use the following command to register a bot with your Laravel application:

php artisan telegram:bot YOUR_BOT_TOKEN

This will generate a new service provider at:

app/Providers/Telegram/BotNameProvider.php

Registering the Provider

Ensure the generated service provider is registered:

• Laravel 11+: in bootstrap/providers.php
• Laravel 10 and below: in config/app.php under the providers array

Add it manually if it was not auto-registered.

🌐 Set the Webhook

To set the Telegram webhook for your bot:

php artisan telegram:set-webhook telegram_bot_id

The webhook URL defaults to:

https://your-app-url.com/api/telegram-webhook/{telegram_bot_id}

Local Development

Use ngrok to expose your local server:

ngrok http 8000

Then update .env:

APP_URL=https://your-ngrok-url.ngrok.io

Re-run the webhook command after updating the URL.

📦 Creating Commands

Commands are the main way to handle user interactions with the bot. Each command is a Laravel Job that responds to Telegram updates.

Generate a new command with:

php artisan telegram:command DefaultCommand

This creates a file at:

app/Telegram/BotName/Commands/DefaultCommand.php

✨ Example Command

namespace App\Telegram\MyBot\Commands;

use Romanlazko\LaravelTelegram\Command;
use Romanlazko\LaravelTelegram\Models\Types\Chat;

class DefaultCommand extends Command
{
    public function execute(Chat $chat)
    {
        $this->apiMethod('sendMessage');
        $this->text('My first command!');
        $this->chatId($chat->id);
        $this->parseMode('Markdown');

        return $this->send();
    }

    public function resolveDefaultClosureDependencyForEvaluationByName(string $parameterName): array
    {
        return match ($parameterName) {
            'update' => [$this->getObject()],
            'message' => [$this->evaluate(fn ($update) => $update->message ?? $update->callback_query->message)],
            'chat' => [$this->evaluate(fn ($message) => $message->chat)],
            default => parent::resolveDefaultClosureDependencyForEvaluationByName($parameterName),
        };
    }
}

🧠 Dependency Injection

Your command’s execute() method can declare parameters like:

• Update
• Message
• Chat
• CallbackQuery

These will be resolved and injected automatically from the incoming Telegram update.

You can override the method resolveDefaultClosureDependencyForEvaluationByName() to customize how dependencies are resolved.

✅ Features at a Glance

• Support for multiple bots
• Laravel-native syntax
• Webhook auto-registration
• Commands as Laravel Jobs
• Dependency injection
• Clean architecture

📚 Resources

• Telegram Bot API
• Laravel Service Providers
• Laravel Queues

📝 License

This package is open-sourced software licensed under the MIT license.

💬 Support

Feel free to open issues or contribute with PRs. Happy bot building 🤖!