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Laravel package for Telegram Bot API with webhook and polling support.

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Features

• Telegram API client with typed methods and raw API calls.
• Webhook mode with secret validation.
• Polling mode with retries, backoff, --max-iterations, and --stop-when-empty.
• Update dispatcher with handler pipeline.
• Built-in anti-spam for repeated chat commands.
• Telemetry events for polling and update processing lifecycle.

Quick start

composer require lermal/laravel-telegram-bot
php artisan telegram:install

Then configure handlers in config/telegram.php.

Requirements

• PHP 8.3+
• Laravel 13+

Main commands

• php artisan telegram:webhook:set {url?}
• php artisan telegram:webhook:info
• php artisan telegram:webhook:delete {--drop-pending-updates}
• php artisan telegram:poll {--once} {--max-iterations=} {--stop-when-empty}
• php artisan telegram:install

Documentation

Detailed setup, architecture notes, examples, and troubleshooting are in wiki: https://github.com/lermal/laravel-telegram-bot/wiki

Support

• Issues: https://github.com/lermal/laravel-telegram-bot/issues
• Source: https://github.com/lermal/laravel-telegram-bot

Tests

composer test

License

MIT