Simple telegram bot to publish quizes in community telegram channel

Requirements

ENV Variables

• BOT_TOKEN - Telegram bot token
• CHANNEL_ID - Telegram chanell where to publish messages. Bot must be administrator of channel
• THREAD_ID - Thread in which to put messages
• MCQ_URL - URL of json with questions
• PUBLISH_TIME - time to publish quizes in format HH:mm
• TZ - timezone in which to operate (eq."Europe/Chisinau")

Questions

Questions must be published in an available resource in format

[
    {
        "question": "Which Kubernetes object is used to ensure a specified number of pod replicas are running?",
        "options": [
            "Deployment",
            "StatefulSet",
            "DaemonSet",
            "ReplicaSet"
        ],
        "correct_option_id": 3,
        "explanation": "A ReplicaSet ensures that a specified number of pod replicas are running at all times."
    }
]

At publish time bot will select an randomized question and whill shuffle response options

Run

pyhon quiz_bot.py

Build docker image

docker build --progress plain  --platform linux/amd64 -t aprescornic/telegram_quizz:1.0.0 .

RUN in docker

docker run -it --rm -e CHANNEL_ID="-100Your Chanel ID" -e BOT_TOKEN="Your Bot Token" -e THREAD_ID="2" -e TZ="Europe/Chisinau" -e MCQ_URL="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/devops-md/quiz-bot/refs/heads/main/questions.json" aprescornic/telegram_quizz:1.0.0