tgbot

A minimal C Telegram API library.

Requirements

• libcurl
• json-c

Note: This project is purely educational. It does not aim to cover the entire Telegram Bot API, but only a selected subset of methods.

How to build

Linux

$ meson setup build
$ cd build
$ meson compile
$ meson install

Windows

Install all the required library with vcpkg and then copy the DLL file.

$ meson setup build --native-file meson-vcpkg.txt
$ cd build
$ meson compile
$ meson install

Examples

You can find some examples here.

Supported Types

• InlineKeyboardMarkup
  • Note: Standard KeyboardMarkup is intentionally not supported.

Supported Methods

• getMe
• sendMessage
• editMessageText
• sendDice
• sendPhoto

Roadmap

• sendAudio
• sendDocument
• sendVideo