lightofheaven1994/chaddi-tg

A tailor made Telegram Bot written in Python3

ChaddiBot

http://t.me/ChaddiBot

A tailor made (and mediocre) Telegram Bot written in Python 3.

Setup and Deployment

• Register your bot with @botfather. Refer to Telegram's documentation.
• Clone the repo.
• Setup virtualenv.

python3 -m venv .env
source .env/bin/activate

• Install from requirements.txt

cd chaddi-tg
pip install -r requirements.txt

• Create config.py in src/
• Add src/config.py with relevant information

# Bot Username
bot_username = "ChaddiBot"

# Telegram Bot API Token
tg_bot_token = "YOUR-TG-BOT-API-TOKEN-HERE"

# Telegram Webhook URL
tg_webhook_url = "https://chaddibot.com/"

# Whether runnning as dev or not
is_dev = True

# Choose which Text to Speech Engine to use.
tts_engine = "gTTS" # Google TTS

• Run locally with python bot_chaddi.py.
• Run in prod with ./run_prod.sh.

/mom handler

The /mom handler uses spaCy library. It needs to be installed with the English language model.

python -m spacy download en_core_web_sm

WebM converter

WebM files are converted into mp4 by src/handlers/webm_converter.py using ffmpeg. Make sure to install that.

Webhook conectivity

Refer to python-telegram-bot's official documentation

To check if your setup is correct, do a GET at https://api.telegram.org/bot{my_bot_token}/getWebhookInfo.