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