Posting notifications in telegram via bot¶

This telegram bot substitutes ifttt’s applet “Webhook to Telegram”, which may work slowly.

Deployment
Try it out

Deployment ¶

Create a bot ¶

In telegram client open BotFather
Send /newbot command to create a new bot
Follow instruction to set bot name and get bot token
Keep your token secure and store safely, it can be used by anyone to control your bot

Prepare zip file ¶

To make deployment package execute following commands:

mkdir /tmp/bot
cd /tmp/bot

pip3 install pyTelegramBotAPI -t .
wget https://gitlab.com/itpp/chatops/raw/master/ifttt-to-telegram/lambda_function.py
zip -r /tmp/bot.zip *

Create Lambda function ¶

Navigate to https://console.aws.amazon.com/lambda/home
Click Create function
Configure the function as described below

Runtime ¶

Use Python 3.6

Function code ¶

Set Code entry type to Upload a .zip file
Select bot.zip file you made

Environment variables ¶

BOT_TOKEN – the one you got from BotFather
TELEGRAM_CHAT – where to send notification. You can chat id by sending any message to Get My ID bot
EVENT_<EVENT_NAME> – set response value. Use IFTTT syntax. For example:

EVENT_RED_PULL_REQUEST set to value PR TESTS are failed: {{Value1}}<br> {{Value2}}.

Trigger ¶

API Gateway. Once you configure it and save, you will see Invoke URL under Api Gateway details section
Set the security mechanism for your API endpoint as Open

Try it out ¶

Use URL of the following format to replace with your ifttt webhook URL:

<INVOKE_URL>?event=<EVENT_NAME>, for example https://9ltrkrik2l.execute-api.eu-central-1.amazonaws.com/default/MyLambda?event=RED_PULL_REQUEST