[Gambas-user] Telegram Bot Library

[John Dovey]

Thank you.. That's a damn fine idea.. I'm not too sure about the
wrapping stuff, so I'd have to work on that.

On Mon, 5 Jul 2021 at 10:28, T Lee Davidson <t.lee.davidson at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 7/4/21 8:55 AM, Brian G wrote:
> > I don't know about gambas, but there is a c++ library
> >
> > https://github.com/reo7sp/tgbot-cpp
> >
> > Can that be called directly from gambas?
> >
> > --
> > Thanks
> > Brian G
> >
>
> They call it a library, but it's more of a class definition designed for instantiation of an object and subsequent execution of
> methods of that object; not a actual library with externally callable functions. That is also true of the other C/C++
> (so-called) libraries I looked at.
>
> John, if you're averse to coding in VB and would prefer Gambas, you could just code against the HTTP-based Telegram Bot API
> directly. There are only 54 methods, and the call format is quite simple:
> https://api.telegram.org/bot<token>/METHOD_NAME
> (https://core.telegram.org/bots/api#making-requests)
>
> It should be relatively easy to convert the response to a collection using JSON.Decode from the gb.util.web component.
>
>
> --
> Lee
>
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