blueset / BuildAList

Build a list together: A Telegram Bot.

Build-a-list bot

• Try it out on Telegram
• Made to run on Vercel.

How to use

Create a list

Send:

/create title
description...
more descriptions...

even more descriptions ...

---

entry one
entry two
entry thee

(The bot treats descriptions and entries equally, and will not remove extra blank lines from it.)

Contribute to a list

Reply to a list with:

entry four
entry five
entry two
-entry one

This will add entry four, entry five and remove entry one from the list. entry two will not be added twice since it is already in the list.

Setup

Install

yarn install

Environment variables

Note: replace 123456:ABCDEFghijklmnop098765 with your own token.

echo 'BOT_TOKEN="123456:ABCDEFghijklmnop098765"' > .env

Run in development mode

yarn dev

Build and run

yarn build
yarn serve

Set webhook with Telegram

Note: replace example.com with your own domain.

http POST https://api.telegram.org/bot123456:ABCDEFghijklmnop098765/setWebhook url=https://example.com/api/123456:ABCDEFghijklmnop098765