README.md

TFGrid Contract Monitor Bot

Overview

The Contract Monitor Bot is a tool designed to monitor user contracts within ThreeFold Grid.

Features:

• Monitors user contracts and nodes status.
• Customizable alerting and notification system.

Getting Started

Prerequisites

Ensure that you have installed:

• Go programming language (version 1.19 or higher if not using docker)
• Git

How to start

1. Clone this repository to your local machine:

git clone https://github.com/threefoldtech/tfgrid-sdk-go.git
cd tfgrid-sdk-go/user-contracts-mon

2. Setup your telegram bot and your env

• Create a new telegram bot if you don't have.
• Create a new env file .env, for example:

     BOT_TOKEN=<your bot token>
     INTERVAL=<number of hours between notifications>
     ```

3.  Run the bot:

-   Using go

 ```bash
     go run main.go -e .env
     ```

-   Using Docker

  ```bash
     docker build -t contract-mon -f Dockerfile ../
     docker run -v $(pwd)/.env:/.env -it contract-mon -e /.env
     ```

## Create a bot

-   Open telegram app
-   Create a new bot

```ordered
  1. Find telegram bot named "@botfarther"
  2. Type /newbot
  ```

-   Get the bot token

```ordered
 1. In the same bot named "@botfarther"
 2. Type /token
 3. Choose your bot
 ```