Before running your bot in production you will need to setup few external API. In production mode, the bot required valid Bittrex API credentials and a Telegram bot (optional but recommended).
To be completed, please feel free to complete this section.
The only things you need is a working Telegram bot and its API token. Below we explain how to create your Telegram Bot, and how to get your Telegram user id.
1.1. Start a chat with https://telegram.me/BotFather
1.2. Send the message /newbot
BotFather response:
Alright, a new bot. How are we going to call it? Please choose a name for your bot.
1.3. Choose the public name of your bot (e.g "Freqtrade bot
")
BotFather response:
Good. Now let's choose a username for your bot. It must end in `bot`. Like this, for example: TetrisBot or tetris_bot.
1.4. Choose the name id of your bot (e.g "My_own_freqtrade_bot
")
1.5. Father bot will return you the token (API key)
Copy it and keep it you will use it for the config parameter token
.
BotFather response:
Done! Congratulations on your new bot. You will find it at t.me/My_own_freqtrade_bot. You can now add a description, about section and profile picture for your bot, see /help for a list of commands. By the way, when you've finished creating your cool bot, ping our Bot Support if you want a better username for it. Just make sure the bot is fully operational before you do this.
Use this token to access the HTTP API:
521095879:AAEcEZEL7ADJ56FtG_qD0bQJSKETbXCBCi0
For a description of the Bot API, see this page: https://core.telegram.org/bots/api
1.6. Don't forget to start the conversation with your bot, by clicking /START button
2.1. Talk to https://telegram.me/userinfobot
2.2. Get your "Id", you will use it for the config parameter
chat_id
.