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Golang bindings for the Telegram Bot API

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 1// Package tgbotapi has bindings for interacting with the Telegram Bot API.
 2package tgbotapi
 3
 4import (
 5	"net/http"
 6)
 7
 8// BotAPI has methods for interacting with all of Telegram's Bot API endpoints.
 9type BotAPI struct {
10	Token   string       `json:"token"`
11	Debug   bool         `json:"debug"`
12	Self    User         `json:"-"`
13	Updates chan Update  `json:"-"`
14	Client  *http.Client `json:"-"`
15}
16
17// NewBotAPI creates a new BotAPI instance.
18// Requires a token, provided by @BotFather on Telegram
19func NewBotAPI(token string) (*BotAPI, error) {
20	return NewBotAPIWithClient(token, &http.Client{})
21}
22
23// NewBotAPIWithClient creates a new BotAPI instance passing an http.Client.
24// Requires a token, provided by @BotFather on Telegram
25func NewBotAPIWithClient(token string, client *http.Client) (*BotAPI, error) {
26	bot := &BotAPI{
27		Token:  token,
28		Client: client,
29	}
30
31	self, err := bot.GetMe()
32	if err != nil {
33		return &BotAPI{}, err
34	}
35
36	bot.Self = self
37
38	return bot, nil
39}