ODTÜ Telegram Bot

This repository contains a tiny Telegram Bot that was developed to understand the Telegram Bot API, and Python web services. Currently under development.

Installation

Get yourself a Bot account and a token at Telegram Bots.
Set up your environment and install dependencies.
Run install.py and enter your Telegram Bot Token.

Usage

After installation, run driver.py
The bot should run smoothly.

Command Line Arguments

--verbose will make the bot verbose, and it will print many things on the terminal window.
--log will activate the logging mode, which will log all messages to the database.

Running as a Service

The following guide explains how to run the bot as a service on Raspberry Pi (Raspbian), but it is applicable to any other Linux system as well.

Create a file at /lib/systemd/system/telegram.service with the following content:

[Unit]
Description=Telegram Bot
Wants=network-online.target
After=network-online.target

[Service]
Type=idle
User=pi
ExecStart=/usr/bin/python3 /home/pi/telegram-bot/driver.py

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target

Don't forget to change the line starting with ExecStart accordingly! The permissions of this file should be 644.

On a terminal window, enter the following commands;

sudo systemctl daemon-reload
sudo systemctl enable telegram.service

Reboot your system, and the bot should go live when the network connection is established.

Dependencies

Python 3
Requests

Bugs, Comments, Ideas?

Don't hesitate contacting me, or sending a pull request. They are always welcome.

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