Astone is a Telegram Bot for online auctions.
It supports some simple commands to create an auction or to bid on a existing one.
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Telegram can deep link a bot with a specific url in the format:
https://telegram.me/{BotName}
In the case of Astone the stantard deep linking url will be
https://telegram.me/AstoneBot
Deep link can pass parameters to Bot's start, to pass parameter url must have a query string key called start. This parameter is used to generate a link with deeplinking of a auction, this is useful for sharing the auction, the url with deeplinking of the auction will be:
https://telegram.me/AstoneBot?start=auc:1234
Where 1234 is the auction identifier, must be payed attention to parameter value length because
it must be max 64 characters long.