Counter-hack Bot

Telegram Bot for dealing with Google Sheets in Python using sqlite3, python-telegram-bot and gspread library

Counter-hack helps to count money (or something else in future) getting numbers and categories from a user.

• Sqlite3 database is used for data storage.

• The bot, receiving a request from the user, processes it using the python-telegram-bot library, which interacts with the Telegram bot API.

• gspread is a Python API for Google Sheets.

Table of contents

• How to use it
• Setup
  • Technologies Used
  • Installation
  • Step by step installation
  • Project status
  • Room for improvement
    • Future features
    • Future changing

How to use it

1. Open Google Sheets template
2. Click 'Share access' for editing with telegram-bot-service@counter-bot-361806.iam.gserviceaccount.com
3. Copy URL of a page and send it to Counter-hack bot

Setup

• All packages are located in requirements.txt
• Environmental variables are located in .env (you must change example.env file)

Technologies Used

• Python 3.8
• sqlite3
• python-telegram-bot
• gspread

Installation

python3 -m venv env

. env/bin/activate

pip install -r requirements.txt

Step by step installation

Install python-telegram-bot library

pip install python-telegram-bot --upgrade

Then install ...

pip install telegram

Then library for getting environmental variables:

pip install python-dotenv

Install a gspread library (a Python API for Google Sheets)

pip install gspread

Project status

Project is in progress

Room for improvement

Future features

• Adding new languages
• Adding feature for an admin to get more statistic information
• Bot will create its own table with all values, user need only click start, pass authentication and choose a template

Future changing

• Replace polling with webhook
• Check if the name of a sheet is equal to a month and create a new one if not