telegram bot - keep questions and answers - bots

Question

My telegram bot is a dialog and it needs to keep the questions and the answers (like TriviaBot). What is the best (most efficient) method to do this? A database with the user id as key?
There is a lot of telegram bots, but where are examples with the source code to get ideas?

Answer 1

Your question is not really related to the telegram bot API. You are essentially asking: I have an application that has to keep an history of user interactions, how to do this (efficient)?
To answer that: you could use a database and insert an entry for each conversation using an unique identifier. Since telegram has a chat_id for each conversation, you could use that. Depending on what you are exactly trying to store, you should choose how to store it. (an entry for each answer, or for each conversation or ...)
If you program in python, you can use the python wrapper called python-telegram-bot to make things easier
Examples are here:
https://github.com/leandrotoledo/python-telegram-bot#examples

Answer 2

You can use force_reply and frequently ask whatever you want and store answers in any kind of database.
Please refer to its doc : refrence
and a simple answer on : force reply description

Answer 3

Well, I didn't found any example of force_reply, and had to ask an ai about it, honestly I dont know if it works, I just hope that it helps, here we go...
function survey(data) {
var Q1 = {
'chat_id': data.message.chat.id,
'text': 'how are you?'
}
var method = 'sendMessage';
var options = {
'method': 'post',
'contentType': 'application/json',
'payload': JSON.stringify(Q1)
}
var response = UrlFetchApp.fetch('https://api.telegram.org/bot' + telegramToken + '/' + method, options);
var text = data.message.text;
// Start loop
for (var i = 0; i < 3; i++) {
if (i == 0) {
// First iteration
if (text == "") {
// Get response from user
currentstep = '3';
var dataForceReply = {
method: "post",
payload: {
method: "sendMessage",
chat_id: String(data.message.chat.id),
text: "how are you?",
reply_markup: JSON.stringify({
"force_reply": true
})
}
};
UrlFetchApp.fetch(telegramAPIURL + "/", dataForceReply);
}
} else if (i == 1) {
// Second iteration
if (text != "") {
// Get response from user
// Store response in variable
var response1 = text;
var dataForceReply2 = {
method: "post",
payload: {
method: "sendMessage",
chat_id: String(data.message.chat.id),
text: "What do you think about this?",
reply_markup: JSON.stringify({
"force_reply": true
})
}
};
UrlFetchApp.fetch(telegramAPIURL + "/", dataForceReply2);
}
} else if (i == 2) {
// Third iteration
if (text != "") {
// Get response from user
// Store response in variable
var response2 = text;
var dataForceReply3 = {
method: "post",
payload: {
method: "sendMessage",
chat_id: String(data.message.chat.id),
text: "Do you have any suggestions?",
reply_markup: JSON.stringify({
"force_reply": true
})
}
};
UrlFetchApp.fetch(telegramAPIURL + "/", dataForceReply3);
}
} else {
// Get response from user
// Store response in variable
var response3 = text;
// Store all responses in variables
var response1 = response1;
var response2 = response2;
var response3 = response3;
}
}
}