new_year_congrats

Heg.ai Telegram bot

Enviroment

python --version >>> Python 3.8.5

linux version >>> Ubuntu 20.0

Telegram API wrapper used: python-telegram-bot

On a AWS Ubuntu 18.04 new machine, below installations are required:

• sudo apt-get install gcc libpq-dev
• sudo apt-get install python3-dev python3-pip python3-venv python3-wheel
• sudo apt install git-all
• pip3 install wheel

Gsheets intergration

• on console.cloud.google.com add credentials for new service account and get json file
• touch newyearbot-service.json
• copy everything from json file to newyearbot-service.json
• open newyearbot-service.json and copy client_email, add it as editor to google sheets file

Launch

• git clone --recurse-submodules https://repo.url repo - clone repo
• cd repo - move to project directory

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• source setup.sh - create and activate virtual environment, install dependencies

  • --dev or -d set up development environment with pre-commit formatter, read more about pre-commit

• cp .env.example .env - create your .env file and insert your values

• openssl req -newkey rsa:2048 -sha256 -nodes -keyout private.key -x509 -days 3650 -out cert.pem - create a self-signed SSL certificate for webhook, read more about ssl for telegram

• python3 -m src.bot - run as python module from top src directory to acsess database layer

  • --web-hook or -w run on webhook (polling by default)
  • --debug or -d disable logging to telegram channel if you test locally
  • --service or -s echo service msgs to any msg or commands