Tess Bot is a testing chat bot based on Telegram API.
Its main function is to perform a testing sequence in a chat form. Test is initiated by calling an assigned command.
You may require to run Tess as a background daemon on your linux server like your ordinary web server.
For general convenience i have included a deploy script which is located in /deploy package.
Ubuntu 18 and above recommended.
Modify settings up to your needs:
1. Create your bot account in Telegram via @BotFather
2. Insert your unique Telegram bot token
*(if you have any troubles with the above, check [Creating a new bot](https://core.telegram.org/bots#6-botfather))*
3. Add custom questions (settings contain format commentary)
4. Modify custom replies such as greeting
5. At the end of the test, Tess will provide a special invitation link to a telegram group or channel.
Be sure to add the correct group/channel @name and promote your bot to an admin role of a channel/group.
How to deploy:
1. Git clone the repository to any convenient location on your server: sudo git clone https://github.com/loneloon/tess_bot
2. Install requirements from /deploy: sudo python3 -m pip install -r requirements.txt
3. Launch create_service.py as root (if the service was created successfully you will recieve no output): sudo python3 create_service.py
4. Start the service: sudo systemctl tess_bot
-Tess is based on pyTelegramBotAPI by [eternnoir](https://github.com/eternnoir/pyTelegramBotAPI),
which is quite a handy implementation of the official Telegram Bot API.
-Tess stores user data in sqlite type db, using a DB module written with SQLAlchemy assets and supplied db-object models (read more on how the data mapper operates inside the script itself: /db_assets/db.py).
-Tess is always logging function calls decorated with Log() on a daily rotation (new day - new log file).
-Tess can be modified to your liking, for instance you can supply a number of input string cases and bot replies
(empty methods for that purpose can be found at the bottom of the TestingBot class).
Please get in touch, if anything remains unclear.