RandomChat-Bot

A Telegram bot which is able to connect randomly multiple users creating anonimous chats

Features

Each user (ID and name) is saved in a database at first /start

Connect virtually two users anonymously. When user1 send the /join command his ID is assigned to a free room. If user2 is assigned to the same room all messages sent by user1 is routed to user2

Only text and photo can be sent to another users and neither is saved in the database

Rooms are numbered automatically from 0 to 20

Only one ID can be admin of the bot: it is specifed in the config.py file

Public commands:

• /join a room
• /leave the actual room
• /skip leave the actual room and join another automatically
• /report send a message directly to the admin

Admin commands:

• /help list all admin command
• /alluser list of all users registered
• /sendmessage <id> <text> send a message to a specific ID
• /bad <id> ban a specific user by his ID
• /unban <id> unban a specific user by his ID
• /log get the entire log file of the bot

Setup and run

Create a bot using Bot Father and get the Token

Modify config.py with the admin ID and the Token. You can also modify the default name and password of the database in the file db.py

Install the last version of docker and docker-compose than build and run the application:

sudo docker-compose up --build

You can access the postgres database with

sudo docker exec -it my_container psql -U admin -W botDb /bin/bash

my_container is the container ID

TODO

• Enable other types of messages
• Inline keyboard
• Multi language
• Rooms can support more than two partecipants
• Set name/avar for each user

....what else?

Thanks to vishnubob for wait-for-it script