Telex

A Telegram Bot based on plugins.

This bot uses twx.botapi and twx python libraries for its bindings.

Everything is being written for Python 3.4/3.5 currently. Everything works in a virtualenv installed and sourced in the launch script.

Some plugins require admin permissions. You can set an admin in permissions.conf using the following format

[groups]
  admins = <userid#>,<userid#>,<userid#>

You can get your user id number by sending the following query to the bot

!tginfo id

Installation

Steps: 1: Clone git repository. 2: Install dependencies 3: Install telex 5: Run telex

Cloning the repository

git clone --recursive https://github.com/datamachine/telex.git && cd telex

Installing telex

To install the bot, run the following in telex directory.

./launch.sh install

Running telex

To start the bot, run the following in telex directory.

./launch

Running telex as a service

For systems with systemd

If you have systemd, you can run the bot as a service by following the below procedure.

To check if you have systemd, run

if test -d /usr/lib/systemd; then echo "exist"; else echo "doesn't exist"; fi

If output is exist then you have systemd and you can continue with below steps.

Edit the config file:

sed -i "s/<username>/$(whoami)/g" etc/telex.service
sed -i "s/<telexpath>/$(pwd)/g" etc/telex.service
sudo cp etc/telex.service /etc/systemd/system/

Enabling service:

sudo systemctl enable telex.service

Starting/Stopping telex:

sudo systemctl start telex.service # To start it
sudo systemctl status telex.service # To check status
sudo systemctl stop telex.service # To stop it

Make sure that the status is Active: active (running)

For systems with upstart

If you have upstart, you can run the bot as a service by following the below procedure.

To check if you have upstart, run

if test -d /usr/lib/upstart; then echo "exist"; else echo "doesn't exist"; fi

If output is exist then you have upstart and you can continue with below steps.

Edit the config file:

sed -i "s/<username>/$(whoami)/g" etc/telex.conf
sed -i "s/<telexpath>/$(pwd)/g" etc/telex.conf
sudo cp etc/telex.conf /etc/init/

Starting/Stopping telex:

sudo start telex # To start it
sudo stop telex # To stop it

For Mac

Follow insrucions here: http://superuser.com/questions/264954/can-i-use-a-bash-script-as-a-service-in-os-x-without-having-to-set-it-up-trough

Notes

While already very capable, this bot is still in relatively early development. Some plugin names, or plugin API calls may be modified. However, we are starting to settle on our stable APIs.

With that said, we do strive to have the bot continue to function seamlessly when pulling the latest HEAD

Contact

The primary developers are Vince (@Surye) and Phillip (@xlopo) and can be contacted directly through telegram.

You can also join our telegram group using the link: https://telegram.me/twxapi

Bug reports and issues can be reported at: https://github.com/datamachine/telex/issues