RandomReaper / PhotoBot

PhotoBot

A Photo booth Telegram Bot.

This bot will watch for changes in a directory and post new images to telegram channels Telegram channel.

Compiling

• UNIX-like (Linux, MacOS X, ...) : ./gradlew build
• Windows : gradlew.bat build

results :

File	Description
build/PhotoBot-dev.jar	The latest build of the library, constant name, useful for testing.
build/libs/PhotoBot-VERSION.jar	The same file with a versioned name.

Running

• Create photobot.properties (see photobot.properties.sample)
  • token : the bot token given by BotFather.
  • ids : a comma separated list of channel ids.
    • The bot MUST be admin to post messages on a channel.
    • When the bot receive a message, it will post the channel id on the first message it receives on a new channel.
• gradle run

Version

The version number used in the file name and available using PhotoBot.version() is generated by inspecting the git state (see com.palantir.git-version for details).

Here is an example : 1.5.7-3-g2aabbbf.dirty

• 1.5.7 is the last tag
• -3- we are 3 commits after the tag
• g2aabbbf : git short hash
• .dirty : some changes are not committed

How to release (and have a nice version number)

0. git commit
1. git tag -a MAJOR.MINOR.SUB -m "tag vMAJOR.MINOR.SUB"
2. git push origin MAJOR.MINOR.SUB
3. compile