Telegram Bot V1

Table of Contents

• About
• Getting Started
• Usage

About

The first version of the bot that provides various informational content. The bot works on the framework Telegraf.js.

Main Features

• Reacting to some phrases
• Setting and event reminder
• Getting weather for the city
• Reading rss news from different sources
• Getting the exchange rate
• Bot features help

Getting Started

These instructions will help you run a copy of the project on your local machine for development and testing purposes.

Prerequisites

For the project to work, the following dependencies must be installed on your system:

• Node.JS and NPM — Documentation
• Nodemon — Documentation

Installing project

0. Copy this repository to your local machine
1. Run the command in the project folder

   npm install
   

2. Create a telegram bot token — Documentation
3. Create a .env file at the root of the project (on the same level as package.json)
4. Add a telegram bot token to the .env file

   TELEGRAM_TOKEN="YOUR_TOKEN" 
   

5. [Optional] Create a OpenWeatherMap token — Documentation
   • Add a OpenWeatherMap token to the .env file

     WEATHER_SERVICE_TOKEN="YOUR_TOKEN" 
     

6. Start the project

   npm start 
   

Usage

Go to telegram, find there the bot you created to which the specified API token is attached. Get a list of available commands by writing to it:

/help