osdc-bots 🤖

Compilation of all the bots made for simplifying the repetetive tasks on various community platforms of OSDC.

Telegram Bot Setup Guide

Setup Golang

• Open Getting Started - The Go Programming Language
• Follow the setup instructions as per your Operating System.
• Do make sure you have the Go version 1.13.
• Test your installation - https://golang.org/doc/install#testing

Clone the bots repository

$ git clone https://github.com/osdc/bots
$ cd bots
$ git checkout -b <new-branch-name>

Get the TELEGRAM_API Token

1. Ping @BotFather on Telegram.
2. Send the message /start
3. Read the instructions and make a new bot for your personal testing by /newbot command.
4. Give a suitable name and username to the bot.
5. You’ll get your bot API token as 89xxxxxxx:xxxxxxxxxxxxAAHmf32ZghS-cqxBLfnkUx9VwoXeOIRlnUQ.
6. Copy it and save it in a file named as /.env/ in your project folder.

Build & Execute the bot

1. In the telegram-bots directory, run go build .
2. Export the Telegram API Token by running export TELEGRAM_TOKEN=<your-token> in the telegram-bots directory using terminal.
3. The build creates an executable with the name telegram-bot. Run it using ./telegram-bot.
4. Ping your bot at @<username_set>. You’l find the bot up and running.