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start_polling

Start polling

Description

Starts polling updates from Telegram. You can stop the polling either by using the the interrupt R command in the session menu or with the stop_polling method.

Usage

start_polling(timeout = 10L, clean = FALSE, allowed_updates = NULL,
  verbose = FALSE)

Arguments

`timeout`	(Optional). Passed to `getUpdates`. Default is 10.
`clean`	(Optional). Whether to clean any pending updates on Telegram servers before actually starting to poll. Default is `FALSE`.
`allowed_updates`	(Optional). Passed to `getUpdates`.
`verbose`	(Optional). If `TRUE`, prints status of the polling. Default is `FALSE`.

Examples

## Not run: 
# Start polling example
start <- function(bot, update) {
  bot$sendMessage(
    chat_id = update$message$chat_id,
    text = sprintf(
      "Hello %s!",
      update$message$from$first_name
    )
  )
}

updater <- Updater("TOKEN") + CommandHandler("start", start)

updater$start_polling(verbose = TRUE)

## End(Not run)

telegram.bot

Develop a 'Telegram Bot' with R

v2.4.0

GPL-3

Authors

Ernest Benedito [aut, cre]

Initial release