This is a simple chatbot that works through telegram's api. It is able to extract queries from text and act accordingly. The bot makes use of Levenshtein Distance to assist it in locating keywords. The bot uses these queries to do various tasks, such as retrieving news from a news API, fetching images from url's, collecting and sending stickers or sending the current date or time. These are just some simple uses of this bot. It could further be used for controlling other scripts/servers/data in an easily manageble and interactive environment. This bot also works great in groups.
The bot first recieves a query in text form from the user. It processes this query by first removing punctuation and unneccessary words such as:
a is that this the I how to lol it again
It then further processes the query by searching for keywords that are used to sort the query into catagories.
'what', 'what's'
'how'
'get', 'fetch', 'send', 'show', 'give'Once the catagory is known and removed from the query, the bot uses the rest of the information as parameters for the catagory. It then looks for other keywords such as date/news/time or numbers that may assist it in responding to the query.
Here are some other commands the bot understands:
/start (Start new interaction with bot)
/send <chat name> <text> (Send text to specifc person or group)
/sticker <chat name> <sticker ID> (Send sticker to chat, leave <sticker ID> blank to send your own)
/echo <text> (Echo sent text)
/auth <password> (Grant administration priveledges)
To see the bot in action, add erion_bot on telegram!
- python-telegram-bot
- requests
This bot makes use of python-telegram-bot. Found here: https://github.com/python-telegram-bot/python-telegram-bot