Telegram BeReal bot 🤖

A reminder bot to share a picture with your chat everyday at a random time. Heavily inspired by the app Bereal.

To use it in your chat

⚠️ This is currently not running live.

For development

To setup locally:

1. On telegram, contact @BotFather to create a new bot and retrieve both your bot's username and the HTTP API token;
2. create an .env file, with environment variables, like it's in .env.example - add your bot's TELEGRAM_BOT_USERNAME and TELEGRAM_TOKEN;
3. Install dependencies with poetry install;
4. Launch a poetry shell so the dependencies are active: poetry shell;
5. Run python run.py set-times <NUMBER_OF_DAYS> <MIN_HOUR> <MAX_HOUR> to fill the times table with random times where:
   • NUMBER_OF_DAYS - optional - is the number of days that the bot will run for, starting today (default: 300);
   • MIN_HOUR - optional - is the earliest hour to send the message (default: 9);
   • MAX_HOUR - optional - is the latest hour to send the message (default: 22);
6. Run python run.py bot to start the bot service;

You can also edit src/settings.py with your own preferences where:

1. DEBUG: variable to set if the command is always sent (if True) or only when the now time corresponds to the defined random time;
2. SECONDS_BETWEEN_CALLBACK: interval for the bot to check if the current time matches the random defined time - ignored in debug mode;
3. WELCOME_MESSAGE: message to send to the telegram chat when the bot joins the chat;
4. CALLBACK_MESSAGE: message to send to the telegram chat every day;
5. DB_FILE: where to store your chats and the random generated times;
6. TIMES_TABLE_NAME: the name of the DB table to store the random generated times;
7. CHATS_TABLE_NAME: the name of the DB table to store the chats ids;