Excrypt

A simple example how to create a telegram bot with pure elixir & http requests.

Installation

If available in Hex, the package can be installed by adding excrypt to your list of dependencies in mix.exs:

def deps do
  [
    {:excrypt, "~> 0.1.0"}
  ]
end

Get started

• Create an account here at Telegram

• DM BotFather and run /newbot Follow the instructions ...

• Copy the bot token, rename .env-example to .env and paste the bot token into it.

APi

There are the following commands:

# fetching the api
iex> {:ok, response} = Tesla.get("https://api.coingecko.com/api/v3/coin")

# decode the results
iex> Jason.decode!(response.body)

# only displaying the first value of the body
iex> Jason.decode!(response.body) |> List.first

# displaying token ids
iex> token["id"]

# mapping the results
iex> token = Jason.decode!(response.body) |> Enum.map(fn result -> result["id"] end)

# take the 10 results
iex> token = Jason.decode!(response.body) |> Enum.map(fn result -> result["id"] end) |> Enum.take(10)