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I cannot make the BOT_TOKEN work

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Hello,

I am trying to build a BOT, but when I initiate my functions I do cannot make the bot works…

the problem I have is with the BOT_TOKEN:

const bot = new Telegraf(process.env.BOT_TOKEN)

const bot = new Telegraf(process.env.123456789:AbCdfGhIJKlmNoQQRsTUVwxyZ);

because there is a colon (😃 between numbers and the code, it seems not to recognise the overall BOT_TOKEN…

Anyone can help?

Cheers

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Created 5 years ago
Comments:6 (2 by maintainers)

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DinoLeungcommented, May 4, 2018

with const bot = new Telegraf(process.env.BOT_TOKEN) you need to declare the environment variable when you start the app so you start your app like this BOT_TOKEN='123456789:AbCdfGhIJKlmNoQQRsTUVwxyZ' npm start

hope you find it helpful

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Otto-AAcommented, May 10, 2018

Just to note, if you wouldn’t care about the token being in the code, you could just enter the string into the constructor const bot = new Telegraf("123456789:AbCdfGhIJKlmNoQQRsTUVwxyZ");