174n / sspu-telegram-bot

A telegram bot that parses class schedules of Shuya Branch of Ivanovo State University @sspu_bot

Class schedules telegram bot

A telegram bot that parses class schedules of Shuya Branch of Ivanovo State University and sends them to users in a text form instead of PDF files (however, if there is a parsing error PDF file will be sent)

Getting Started

You have to have node.js and npm installed

Environment variables

Create an .env file with bot token and (optional) webhook settings

TG_TOKEN=# bot token goes here
CACHE_DIR=/tmp/cache

# If you don't want to use webhooks
BOT_TYPE=polling
# default polling settings
BOT_POLLING_INTERVAL=1000
BOT_POLLING_TIMEOUT=0
BOT_POLLING_LIMIT=100
BOT_POLLING_RETRYTIMEOUT=5000

# With webhooks
BOT_TYPE=webhook
BOT_URL=# url with https:// at the beginning
BOT_HOST=
BOT_PORT= 

Installing and running

# For development
npm i
npm run dev

# For production
npm i --production
npm run start

Logging

All request logs will be saved in db/loki.json. You can read in json form or type npm run logs. The output will be a table with last hundred records.

If you want to log each request to the console, set LOG_TO_CONSOLE environment variable

Acknowledgments

Thanks mullwar for an awesome telegram bot framework telebot