HTTP¶

Your bot lives on Telegram, but it doesn't have to stay there.

The HTTP instance sends requests to the outside world — your backend, a payment API, a weather service, anything with a URL. GET, POST, headers, JSON bodies: the usual fetch-style workflow, inside a command.

let res = await HTTP.get("https://api.example.com/status")

Use it when Telegram doesn't have the data you need, or when another system needs to know something happened in the bot.

When HTTP fits¶

• Pulling live data (prices, scores, inventory) into a reply
• POSTing form submissions to your server
• Verifying a token against an auth API
• Anything that isn't a Telegram method

For talking to Telegram, use Api. For talking out to the rest of the internet, use HTTP.

Pages here¶

Responses from HTTP callbacks land in http_response and related globals when you use the fallback pattern.