Telegram API Question posted in
A comprehensive official documentation can be found here.

Time trigger in telegraf js – Telegram API

I am making a Telegram bot with Telegraf framework in JavaScript with nodeJS. I want to send a message to the user every Monday morning at 9.00 AM. How can I make this time based trigger in telegraf js?

Tags:

2

Answers


  1. 0

    Telegraf doesn’t provide you with such abilities out-of-the-box since it’s a bot framework with the goal of abstracting API calls. You should instead schedule the task with task scheduling libraries (like node-cron).

    An example with node-cron

    const Telegraf = require('telegraf')

const bot = new Telegraf(process.env.BOT_TOKEN)

const cron = require('node-cron');

cron.schedule('0 9 * * MON', () => {
  // send the message here
  bot.telegram.sendMessage(12345678, "scheduled message");
});

bot.launch()

    If you want to learn a bit more about it, please refer this tutorial

    Login or Signup to reply.
  2. 0

    If you don’t want to use any other libraries, try using Date object.

    let goalTime = new Date(December 17, 2020 13:24:00)

    And use if to check Date.now() :

    let currentTime = Date.now()
if (currentTime == goalTime) {
    ctx.reply("your message")
}

    For sending message weekly (below code is just an example, you can also use hour and minute to specify time):

    const goalTime = new Date(December 17, 2020 13:24:00)
const weekday = goalTime.getDay()
let currentTime = Date.now
let currentDay = currentTime.getDay()
if (currentDay == weekday) {
ctx.reply("your message")
}

    You can refer to this link for more details on Date.

    Login or Signup to reply.
Please signup or login to give your own answer.

Back To Top
Search