Amrita Repository - Bot

A non-modular, low-perf, no-ML, if-else telegram bot built with Flight PHP.

Contributing

• Make sure you have PHP = v7.3.x and composer installed in your system.
• Create a Telegram bot with the help of Botfather and then start the bot.
• Know your own Telegram ID with the help of a bot like this one.
• Fork this repository.
• Clone it into your local machine.

git clone https://github.com/<YOUR_USERNAME>/amritarepo-bot.git

• Get into the amritarepo-bot directory.
• Copy .env.example and paste it as .env and fill in necessary credentials.
• Run a composer install to fetch all dependencies.
• Run composer start to start the web server.
• Use an API testing tool like Postman and send a POST request to http://localhost:2304/<YOUR_BOT_TOKEN> with the sample body

{
  "message" : {
      "text" : "/start",
      "from" : {
          "id" : "<YOUR_TELEGRAM_ID>",
          "first_name" : "<YOUR_FIRST_NAME>",
          "username" : "<YOUR_TELEGRAM_USERNAME>"
      }
  }
}

Example

• If you get an error like Chat not found, it usually means that you have not started the bot from your personal Telegram account. Go to the bot and START it.
• Tadaa! You'll get the response to your Telegram chat ^_^
• Make your awesome changes, push your changes into a new branch.
• Send in a pull-request :)

Misc. Info

• If you run this on your system, question papers module won't work unless you're in Amrita LAN. As a workaround, you can use SonicWall NetExtender (Make sure you choose NetExtender in the dropdown before downloading) and create a connection using the below details :

  Connection Name : Amrita
  Server : 117.240.224.2:4433
  Username/Password : Your CMS/Amrita WiFi credentials

Open Source License

Read the license here

Contributors ✨

Thanks goes to these wonderful people (emoji key):

Rajkumar S 💻 📖

Sanjana G 💻

Arun Vigesh V G 💻

This project follows the all-contributors specification. Contributions of any kind welcome!