TODO

• When sending the message, chech if the user exists in the gruop the list was called
• determine what admins can do and what not; eg. should it permit to ban someone?
• Find when to increment bookmark last update, to delete the bookmark after some time
• Implement subcategories (already implemented in DB)
• Refactor database/listHelpers.go methods
• Improve user experience
• Set default group locale for the welcome message (or welcome message with no locale)
• Bookmarked messages should be seen from the latest one to the oldest.

ScienzaBot

This bot was made to tag the people when in a group where a lot of topics are treated.
The bot look in every message for a "list".
A list is basically a topic.
The bot supports multiple lists.
A list is called via a special character prepending the name of the list (@, #, . or !).
When a list is called, the bot contacts via private message all the users subscribed to the list.
A subscription is the relationship a user creates when he joins a list. If the group where the list was called is private, the bot will just say that a list was invoked, providing the possibility to see the message by tapping on a inline keyboard button to be tagged at the message:

If instead the group is public, the bot will also provide 2 additional buttons; One that takes the user to the group, and the other one the the message in the group:

The user also provide the possibility too "bookmark" a message. Basically the message get saved and a user can see it later in time.

[To be completed in the future]

Compilation for Alpine to include all the libraries

Requires special flag CGO_ENABLED=1 GOOS=linux go build -a -ldflags '-extldflags "-static"' .

Sample Dockerfile (The used in production one)

FROM alpine

ENV TELEGRAM_TOKEN 123:34556767867789

RUN apk update \
        && apk upgrade \
        && apk add --no-cache \
        ca-certificates \
        && update-ca-certificates 2>/dev/null || true

COPY ./scienzabot /

CMD [ "/scienzabot", "-database", "/db/sqlite", "-vv" ]