dmitrytokyo/book-bot

Telegram chat bot, based on flask (webhook)

Book webhook bot

About

The Book Webhook Bot searches in several resources. Bot was based on Flask framework and working via webhook. Books are sent to Telegram.

Requirements

• Programming language - Python 3.8.5.
• Webhook was built on - Flask.
• Telegram bot library - Python-telegram-bot.
• Cache is using - Redis database.

Installation

1. Clone this repository git clone https://github.com/DmitryTokyo/quotes.git.
2. Create virtual environment python3 -m venv venv and activate source venv/bin/activate.
3. Install all dependencies pip install -r requirements.txt
4. Create .env file and put there following variables:
   • TG_TOKEN - telegram bot token. You can get it by using @BotFather bot.
   • DATABASE_PASSWORD - Redis database password.
   • DATABASE_HOST - Redis database host.
   • DATABASE_PORT - Redis database port.
5. Webhook method needs public IP address or domain, but in a local computer you can use ngrok technology. For this way you can start the ngrok server by the command ./ngrok http 5000 and https link assign to URL variable in .env file.
6. You need to tell your terminal the main flask application to work with by exporting the FLASK_APP and set debug mode by exporting the FLASK_ENV:

   export FLASK_APP=app.py
   export FLASK_ENV=development

   You can create .flaskenv instead it.

Usage

1. Start the ./ngrok http 5000 and put to .env https link.
2. Start the app by command flask run.
3. Set up your webhook to follow the url. You can see in your browser webhook setup ok!!!.
4. Send your bot /start.

License

Code licensed under MIT License.