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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

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.