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Pre-requisite
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).
Setup your Bittrex account
To be completed, please feel free to complete this section.
Setup your Telegram bot
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. Create your Telegram bot
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. Get your user id
2.1. Talk to https://telegram.me/userinfobot
2.2. Get your "Id", you will use it for the config parameter
chat_id.