ODTÜ Telegram Bot

This repository contains a tiny Telegram Bot that was developed to understand the Telegram Bot API, and Python web services. Currently under development.

Installation

1. Get yourself a Bot account and a token at Telegram Bots.
2. Set up your environment and install dependencies.
3. Replace YOUR-TELEGRAM-BOT-TOKEN in the init-tables.sql file with your Telegram Bot Token.
4. Import init-tables.sql into your Postgres database.

Usage

1. After installation, run driver.py
2. The bot should run smoothly.

Command Line Arguments

• --verbose will make the bot verbose, and it will print many things on the terminal window.
• --log will activate the logging mode, which will log all messages to the database.

Running as a Service

The following guide explains how to run the bot as a service on Raspberry Pi (Raspbian), but it is applicable to any other Linux system as well.

1. Create a file at /lib/systemd/system/telegram.service with the following content:

[Unit]
Description=Telegram Bot
Wants=network-online.target
After=network-online.target

[Service]
Type=idle
User=pi
ExecStart=/usr/bin/python3 /home/pi/telegram-bot/driver.py

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target

Don't forget to change the line starting with ExecStart accordingly! The permissions of this file should be 644.

2. On a terminal window, enter the following commands;

sudo systemctl daemon-reload
sudo systemctl enable telegram.service

3. Reboot your system, and the bot should go live when the network connection is established.

Dependencies

• Python 3
• Requests
• PostgreSQL

Running via Docker

Simply use docker-compose up.

Bugs, Comments, Ideas?

Don't hesitate contacting me, or sending a pull request. They are always welcome.

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