Finished Telegram Bot

[Wladastic]

I just finished the telegram bot.

To start it, just execute "python autogpt/start_bot.py --gpt3only" with your respective arguments you would add to autogpt.
It listens to /start, /stop and also to your normal responses.
Instead of just answering "y" or "n", you can now say yes, no, aye etc. 😃

To use it, you have to setup a telegram bot with Botfather and get your conversation ID by first talking to your bot, then do a "bot.getUpdates()" call seperatelly to find your id.

Should I maybe edit the /start script to make the bot tell you what conversation id you have?
It's just a bit dangerous, because it would respond to anyone who chats with your bot haha

I am also adding a "voice message" option where it sends you the audio file via voice message that has been generated, to make it even more immersive.

Also thinking about shortening the amount of chats at once, as it can be a bit annoying haha

[djpapzin]

That's great, where can we get the code?

[publabsintl]

are we supposed to put the Zip into the plugins folder and somehow run it on AutoGPT start-up? running your command above doesn't start anything and I also can't prompt it to start from Telegram, but I can see the commands showing up in MENU in Telegram group channel. Any idea? Having issues following some of the documentation on this plugin to install properly..

[Wladastic]

no group channels, only direct chat.
Please do not create group chats with autogpt, this would end up in very bad stuff that people could do to your machine.
Direct chat_id only

[publabsintl]

okay, so just a direct chat with the bot.
How are we supposed to start the start_bot if its running inside the plugins zip file?

[publabsintl]

then you are missing the properties in your .env file. TELEGRAM_ENABLED=True TELEGRAM_API_KEY= api key given by your botfather instance TELEGRAM_CHAT_ID=chat id, you can receive it via api call to telegram api after writing something to your bot first.

Ive tried creating a message and even making the bot respond to the message and I cant seem to see what the chat_id is no matter what i try.. url, curl, writing a python script to output it. doesn't seem to think the bot has received a message yet and I can assure you the token is correct. any ideas?

[Wladastic]

once this pr is through, it will work:
#2929

[brianmcaudill]

Are you planning on making this a plugin for autogpt?

[Wladastic]

already did :D

[publabsintl]

how do we run this now that it's been added as a plugin?

[Wladastic]

once this pr is merged, it will work:
#2929