Telegram Bot Message Processor

This repository provides a simple PHP + Makefile setup to fetch Telegram updates and process incoming messages.

Overview

• process_message.php – defines the function process_message() where you can add your own logic for handling incoming messages (sending replies, saving data, etc.).
• Makefile – automates fetching updates, processing them, and cleaning data files.
• lib/main.php – expected to contain helper functions like telegram_send_text() and telegram_send_file().

How It Works

1. Fetch updates : calls the Telegram Bot API (getUpdates) and stores raw JSON messages in data/*.update_id.json.

make fetch_updates

2. Process updates : each update is passed to process_message.php, where you can customize your bot’s behavior.

make process_updates

3. Clean data : removes all program generated files

make clean

Requirements:

• PHP CLI
• jq (for parsing JSON in make fetch_updates)
• curl