tsnaik/hastebin-bot

Telegram bot for creating and sharing hastebin snippets on the fly

This repository is not being maintained anymore. The bot will probably not work as the mLab add-on Heroku has been shut down and I haven't gotten a chance to migrate.

Hastebin Telegram Bot

Simple telegram bot for creating and sharing Hastebin snippets. Give it a spin

Prerequisites

• npm
• MongoDB

Setup

• Install dependencies

  $ npm install

• Create a file named .env in the project root with content:

  TELEGRAM_TOKEN=<your-unique-token>
  BOT_URL=https://b2c4a7b6.ngrok.io # replace this with your own URL
  MONGODB_URI=mongodb://localhost:27017/hastebot # replace this with your local mongodb URI
  

  • Use ngrok for testing on local server and set its url as BOT_URL

  • You can also specify a port. Default is 5000

    PORT=3000
    

Run

$ npm start

Deploy

• Deployed on Heroku

• Set environment variables on Heroku

  Variable	Value
  TELEGRAM_TOKEN	<Your unique telegram token>
  BOT_URL	<server root> (e.g. https://hastebot.herokuapp.com)