trayanus1026/-accounting-bot

Bot personal expenses

Bot Personal Expenses is a Telegram bot that helps to keep track of personal expenses. It allows you to view your spending statistics for a month, taking into account the limits you set for certain categories. You can also change the limits for categories, set or delete accounts to which your expenses will be linked, create or delete a category, view current exchange rates and convert funds from one account to another.

Technologies used

• Python 3.10
• Aiogram library for creating the Telegram bot
• PostgreSQL database
• Requests and BeautifulSoup modules for web scraping to get the current exchange rate of currencies

How to run the project

Clone the repository and navigate to it in the command line:

git clone https://github.com/Evgenia789/bot_personal_expenses
cd bot_personal_expenses 

Create and activate a virtual environment:

python -m venv venv
source venv/Scripts/activate

In the project directory, create a bot.ini file and add the following:

[tg_bot]
TELEGRAM_TOKEN=""

[allowed_ids]
ID_1=""
ID_2=""

[postgres_database]
POSTGRES_HOST=""
POSTGRES_PORT=""
POSTGRES_USER=""
POSTGRES_PASSWORD=""
POSTGRES_DB=""

where:

• TELEGRAM_TOKEN is the token obtained from BotFather
• ID_1, ID_2, etc. are the IDs of the users who are allowed to use the bot
• POSTGRES_HOST, POSTGRES_PORT, POSTGRES_USER, POSTGRES_PASSWORD, POSTGRES_DB are variables to connect to the PostgreSQL database.

Author

Evgenia Pankova

License

Licensed under the MIT license.