Telegram bot talk

In this repo you can find the examples that were explained in the talk "How to make a Telegram bot with Python", from the PyConAr 2021. Link to the video.

You can talk to this bot on telegram! t.me/sofi_talk_bot

Settings to run these examples

Telegram Settings

Talk to BotFather on Telegram, to create a new bot and get your bot token. You can some related documentation here
create a local_settings.py file in your repo's root with the following content:

BOT_TOKEN = "10201543:A..."  # place here your bot's token.

Google Drive Settings

To be able to connect to a Google Drive Spreadsheet (for feedback's commands for example) you will need some credentials:

Create Google Drive credentials by following these steps
Save the json created with your credentials in a file named sheet_client_key.json in the root of your repo.
Create a Spreadsheet and share it with the user of your recently created credentials (...@...iam.gserviceaccount.com)
Update the variables FEEDBACK_SPREADSHEET_NAME and FEEDBACK_WORKSHEET_INDEX in the file settings.py with the name of your spreadsheet and the index of its sheet where you want to add the feedback (0 is the first sheet)

Install the dependencies

Before running the bot, you need to install some dependencies. I recommend to create them inside a virtualenv:

$ python3 -m venv myvenv
$ . myvenv/bin/activate
$ pip install -r requirements.txt

Run the bots

Now you can run any of the bots! (remember to run these commands inside your virtualenv)

$ python first_bot.py

or:

$ python real_bot.py

Deploy the bot in HEROKU

Create account in Heroku
Install Heroku CLI
Create an app on Heroku.
Add a remote to your local repository

$ heroku git:remote -a example-app

Replace example-app for your Heroku app name.

Deploy by simply pushing your changes

$ git push heroku master

from a browser (or from a terminal with curl or httpie, etc) make a request to <your_heroku_app_domain>/webhook to initialize the webhook for your bot.

Note: you need to have a Procfile file pointing to a web app, like the one you can find in the root of this repo.