Valera Telegram Bot

Valera is the simple telegram bot that do one dead simple thing:

If Valera see any JIRA task key in the chat, he send the short information about this task to the chat.

Valera Telegram Bot
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How to set up

How to set up

Create telegram bot

Use telegram @BotFather bot to create new bot.

Important things:

Go to bot settings –> group privacy -> and turn it off. If you want the bot to work in group chats.
Copy bot TOKEN.

Create the config file

You can see example file configs/config.yaml.

Please, use yaml format.

PROXY_URL: url:port
PROXY_USER: test_user
PROXY_PASS: test_pass
TELEGRAM_BOT_TOKEN: test_token
JIRA_USER: test_user
JIRA_PASS: test_pass
JIRA_URL: https://jira.example-company.ru

Proxy information is needed only if you have blocking problems in you country. You can find free SOCKS5 proxy in @socks5_bot telegram bot.

For now only basic auth in jira is supported so you have to provide login and password.

Run the bot

Run executable file

In the builds directory you can find builds for the different OS: macOS, windows and linux.

You can run the bot like that:

./valera -config config.yaml -allowed wl.txt

-allowed path will be used by the bot to store the information about white list chats, if you need that.

Run docker image

For example, if you place config.yaml file to the path /tmp/configs that you can run image like that:

docker run --name=valera -d -v /tmp/configs:/configs mehanizm/valera

See logs

docker logs valera

Use the bot

By default, bot answers nobody. To have a talk with the bot you have to add chat to the white list.

To do that read the logs. Copy secret string from the line:

To add chat to the white list, please, send the string to the Bot: XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX

and send it to the chat you want to add to the white list.

If you want Valera to work in the group simply add him to the group and send secret string to the chat.

By default, after restart Valera will forget all information about the white list chats. If you want Valera to save the progress tell him save all data. After that Valera create file with chat ID in the -allowed path (or in the config directory if we talk about docker image).

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