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

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

Build & Execute the bot

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