ASP.NET Core 2.x application that receives messages via post requests and sends them to the telegram via Bot API

Startup project is TelegramBotMessageSender

Post request with message:

• Request endpoint: http://<host>:<port>/api/Message/SendMessage
• Request body: {channelName: "ChannelName", message:"TestMessage"} (see Config section)
• Request Header parameter Content-Type: application/json

appsettings.json - main config and it's requeired
nlog.config - logging config and it's required too

By default it's configured to write Logs to the Console with minimum level "Info" and write all logs to the file.
More information about nlog can be found in NLog wiki

Config can be changed in real time. Changes will be applied on the next incomming message

File structure:

 "telegramConfig": {
    "useSocks5Proxy": true,    
    "botToken": "xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx",
    "channels": [
      {
        "channelName": "ChannelName1",
        "channelId": "-000000001"
      },
      {
        "channelName": "ChannelName2",
        "channelId": "-000000002"
      }
    ]
  },
  "socks5Config": {
    "host": "<ip>",
    "port": "<port>",
    "useAuthentication": true,
    "username": "admin",
    "password": "password"
  },

• botToken - telegram bot token. It's can be obtained via @BotFather.
  More information: https://core.telegram.org/bots

• channels - array of channelName - channelId mappings.

  • channelName - fictional "channel name" that comes with a post request and maps to the telegram channel id
  • channelId - telegram group/channel id to which the bot will send messages
    In order to get the telegram group/channel id:
    • Add the telegram Bot to the group
    • Get the list of updtaes for your Bot: https://api.telegram.org/bot<YourBOTToken>/getUpdates.
    • More information: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/32423837

• socks5Config - just socks5 proxy settings, in case the telegram API is blocked