asciifacesbot

Telegram Bot @asciifacesbot that allows you to append ascii faces to your messages ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Backend

Bot runs on Google App Engine

Telegram API

Bot replies to every incoming webhook and doesn't send requests to the API directly

How to run your own asciifacesbot

• Clone this project
• Run pip install -r requirements.txt -t lib/ to install dependencies
• Download and install App Engine SDK
• Register your app in Google Cloud console
• Register your bot via BotFather
• Rename sample_app.yaml to app.yaml and replace YOUR_TELEGRAM_BOT_TOKEN with your bot token
• Set up webhook by running something like curl -X POST -H "Content-Type: application/json" -d '{"url":"https://{yourappid}.appspot.com/{YOUR_TELEGRAM_BOT_TOKEN}"}' https://api.telegram.org/bot{YOUR_TELEGRAM_BOT_TOKEN}/setWebhook
• Run gcloud app deploy app.yaml --project yourappid in the project folder
• ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

TODO:

• Add basic inline bot
• Do something with thumbnail
• Setup your favorite faces through bot commands
• Collect feedback

Thanks to https://github.com/maxogden/cool-ascii-faces for the list of faces ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

See also

• Hacker news bot