Ayresia / covid19-mt-bot

A telegram bot that sends an automated message for COVID19 Malta's statistics.

covid19-mt-bot

A telegram bot that sends an automated message for COVID19 Malta's statistics.

Setup

1. Create a new bot using @Botfather to get a token in the format 123456789:abcabcabc
2. Get the chat/channel id from here
3. Paste the bot token in TELOXIDE_TOKEN and also paste in the CHANNEL_ID in the .env-example
4. Rename .env-example to .env
5. Run cargo build --release (if not deploying via docker)
6. Run the executable in target/release/covid19-mt-bot (if not deploying via docker)

Deploy via Docker

7.1. After you have set up your enviroment, build the docker image by running docker build -t covid19-mt-bot . 7.2. Once you have built the docker image, create a new container by running docker run -d covid19-mt-bot