Telegram Motivational Bot

A Telegram bot to send motivational quotes everyday or whenever you need one

Bot chat expample

About the Project

Everyday is a new challenge and sometimes a we are not ready for it, for me, a motivational quote can help a lot, that's why I did this project. In this project implements Telegram bot using Ruby and the help of some gems like:

• telegram-bot-ruby
• json
• net-http-persistent
• whenever
• rspec
• rubocop

Built With

• Ruby
• Visual Studio, Git & GitHub

Getting Started

Prerequisites

• Ruby
• A terminal
• Telegram bot API key

How to get a Telegram API key

• Register on Telegram.
• Search for Bot father.
• Type /new bot in the chat and follow the instructions.

Setup

• Clone or download this repository
• If necessary, unzip the downloaded directory
• Replace the "Telegram_Bot_API" value in config.json with your API key. (You can use the default one )

      {
          "telegram_bot_api": "YOUR API KEY HERE"
      }
  

• Run:

      bundle install
  

Usage

• Go into the "telegram-motivational-bot" directory
• Execute the "main.rb" file

./bin/main.rb

• Your bot is now runing
• Go to the bot chat in Telegram (bot for given API key: @motivatonal_bot)
• Follow the "How to use" instructions

How to use

To use the bot you can use one of the next commands:

/start - Starts the bot and gets you subscribed to a daily motivational quote. /quote - Gives you a random quote to improve your motivation level. /stop - Stops the subscription.

Default bot

If you used the give API key the bot should be running here:

Telegram bot

Testing methods

For testing please escute the next steps:

• Execute the following code on the terminal to get the Gems needed:

bundle install

• Run the test with the following command:

rspec

Authors

👨‍💻 Elbert Corniell

• GitHub: @elberthcorniell
• Twitter: @elberthcorniell
• LinkedIn: Elbert Corniell

🤝 Contributing

Contributions, issues, and feature requests are welcome!

Feel free to check the issues page.

Thank's to

• Free motivational quotes API

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📝 License

This project is MIT licensed.