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+# Telebot
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+... is a basic _Chicken Scheme_ module to ease the development of Bots interfacing with the [Telegram Bot API](https://core.telegram.org/bots/api).
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+In this context _basic_ means that the module currently consists of barely more than raw HTTP API calls hidden behind analogously named functions and JSON deserialization provided by the _http-client_ respectively _medea_ eggs.
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+The maintanance of these API wrappers is simplified by an appropriate _Scheme_ macro that reduces the implementation of new API methods to basically slightly rewriting the documentation.
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+## Example
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+`example/echo.scm` implements a bot that echoes all messages back to their sender.
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+## Dependencies
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+* [openssl](http://wiki.call-cc.org/eggref/4/openssl)
+* [http-client](http://wiki.call-cc.org/eggref/4/http-client)
+* [medea](http://wiki.call-cc.org/eggref/4/medea)
+* [loops](http://wiki.call-cc.org/eggref/4/loops)
+* [vector-lib](http://wiki.call-cc.org/eggref/4/vector-lib)