FromNowBot is a Telegram Bot made to reply with the time difference from now until the given time/date.
Live at @FromNowBot
Makes use of benjick:telegram-bot extensively.
Run the app with this supplied json file to make use of all the features of the bot.
Note that custom messages' input will be lower-cased before comparison. reply is markdown-enabled.
Run with
meteor run --settings settings.json
{
"BotAPIKey": "123456:ABC-DEF1234ghIkl-zyx57W2v1u123ew11",
"BotCustomMessages": [
{ "input": "help", "reply": "Send me a time/date you would like to calculate the difference from now til!" },
{ "input": "list", "reply": "Send me a time/date you would like to calculate the difference from now til!" },
{ "input": "/help", "reply": "Send me a time/date you would like to calculate the difference from now til!" },
{ "input": "/list", "reply": "Send me a time/date you would like to calculate the difference from now til!" },
{ "input": "start", "reply": "Send me a time/date you would like to calculate the difference from now til!" },
{ "input": "/start", "reply": "Send me a time/date you would like to calculate the difference from now til!" },
{ "input": "what is love?", "reply": "_Baby don't hurt me_" },
{ "input": "don't hurt me", "reply": "*No more*" },
{ "input": "r2d2", "reply": "[R2D2's Secret Message](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6-HUgzYPm9g)" }
],
"public": {
"dateDisplayFormat": "dddd, MMMM Do YYYY, h:mm:ssa (Z)"
}
}This is my first public experiment with Meteor!