Telegram bot @eki_ee_bot for querying translations from official Estonian dictionaries. Since there is no official API available, the bot parses HTML pages to fetch translations. Currently, it supports Estonian-Russian and Russian-Estonian translations, identifying the direction based on the charset. The bot does not have a permanent storage solution but utilizes Redis to cache already fetched articles. Messages are returned with inline keyboard for quick switching.
The motivation behind this project was the need for a convenient tool to obtain translations quickly. The user interface of the eki.ee website is far away from being a user-friendly. As Telegram is my daily messenger, choosing it as the platform was an obvious decision. By that time, I had barely any knowledge of Go, so it was a good chance to learn by developing. Surprisingly, the bot works quite well and requires almost no maintenance.
Submit BOT_TOKEN and WEBHOOK_ADDRESS to env in the docker-compose.yaml and run it with docker-compose up.
Now you're able to emulate webhook requests with POST /localhost:8083