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That they offer long polling as one option for fetching updates makes it incredibly friendly for local development and one-offs. I have had so much fun integra

by lawik 3y ago

That they offer long polling as one option for fetching updates makes it incredibly friendly for local development and one-offs. I have had so much fun integrating with Telegram from Elixir. There is a lib (not in hex unfortunately) that makes it all quite straightforward. I even gave a remote talk about it with an interactive demo: https://youtu.be/DFGHaER6_j4?si=sooEsiyVTmfXPqNs https://youtu.be/DFGHaER6_j4?si=sooEsiyVTmfXPqNs Telegram is a mile simpler to get going with than the others.

lawik 3y ago
By comparison I am currently doing some work with Google Chat of all things. If your bot is in a Space (channel/grouo) it only gets webhooks when someone @-mentions it. Which is really not ideal if you are trying to have an assistant bot participate organically in the convo.. I poked around with doing a Slack bot recently and the hoops for an app were many and confusing. Not Google credentials level but more than I cared for.