image-search-bot

Configurable apps for running Telegram Bots that responds to photo Image Queries

Bots using this framework

@piselli_bot - A joke bot that sends images of beans
@Robertpattinbot - A joke bot that sends images of Robert Pattinson
... (open a PR to be featured here if you want to be featured here)

Deveopment

Register your bot(s) using @botfather.
Add a configuration file inside the project directory (use the one provided as an example)
Choose a prefix for your bot, it will be used to find the secure settings needed using environment variables
Add the environment variable <BOT_PREFIX>_TELEGRAM_KEY and set its value to the configuration token given by @botfather
Choose an image provider and add it to your config (Bing at the moment does now work since the C# library of Bing is broken)
If needed you can override the config directory by passing it as a command-line parameter, i.e: ./image-search-bot.exe /opt/myconfigs

Usage

Docker

Create a Dockerfile with the following contents:

FROM mattiascibien/image-search-bot
COPY *.botconfig.json ./

Run the conrainer with docker run --env <bot_prefix>_TELEGRAM_KEY=<api_key> --env BING_KEY=<api_key> where BOT_PREFIX is the value you have set in your .botconfig.json file