[Telegram Bot Tutorial - Part 0] Introduction

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Introduction

In this tutorial, we will create Telegram bot using Node.js. This tutorial is for everyone even you don't know programming, you can still follow my tutorial to create telegram bot.

What is Telegram and Node.js?

Telegram is a free, open source and cross platform messaging application.

Telegram Official Website

Node.js is a cross platform, free and open source JavaScript run-time environment, mainly for server side application.

Node.Js Official Website

What is a Telegram Bot ?

Telegram is a Bot that you can program it do different things on Telegram. Almost everything you can think of. Feel free to try some of my Telegram Bot:

BTC & ETH Address Monitor
ECA Price Ticker
CMT Price Ticker

What kind of Telegram bot are we going to build ?

In this tutorial, we are going to create a Telegram Bot that can notify us when the balance of a BTC Address change.

What do i need to build a Telegram bot ?

  1. Telegram Account (Click me to create if you don't have one)
  2. Node.js 10.11.0 (Click me to download)

After you created a Telegram account and installed Node.js, we are ready to create a Telegram Bot !
We will start building the bot in next tutorial, stay tuned !