Simple Bot V3.0

Just a simple Java telegram bot, dockerized & deployed on Render
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About The Project

A simple telegram bot project that users can interact with to get quotes and jokes! Currently in development.

Release & Updates

• V3.0 - Bot is now able to respond with jokes or quotes.
• V2.0 - Bot is live and able to respond with basic greetings & date.
• V1.0 - Testing Phase. Undeployed.

Example Commands (UPDATED: V3.0)

Simple bot uses keywords to detect and provde a response accordingly. Some examples below:

Prefixed with /bot:
- hello
- what day is it?
- tell me a joke
- give me a quote

Usage

1. Clone Repository
2. Open project in your favorite IDE (IntelliJ, Eclipse etc.)
3. Build/install maven dependencies
4. Create a new java class for your bot, and register in main class (See here)
5. Enter your bot username and key, Created and retrieved from @BotFather on telegram (See here)
6. Start your application and test it out with the commands available here.

Running Docker Container Locally

1. Make sure to have a Dockerfile in your project root (See this repository for an example)
2. Make sure you have Docker and its CLI installed.
3. Build the docker image

docker build -t dockerImageNameOfYourChoice --build-arg BOT_KEY=YourBotKeyHere --build-arg BOT_USERNAME=YourBotUsernameHere .

4. Run the image in a container, and port forward to 8080 if you want to create APIs

docker run -p 8080:8080 dockerImageNameYouCreated

Contact

• https://github.com/nc1z

Project Link: https://github.com/nc1z/simple-bot-telegram

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Acknowledgments

• https://github.com/rubenlagus/TelegramBots
• https://zenquotes.io/
• https://github.com/15Dkatz/official_joke_api

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