iambibhas / GoodreadsBot

A Telegram bot to fetch book details from Goodreads.com

BookInfoBot for Telegram

This is a simple bot that runs on Heroku and searches for books on Goodreads.

Mine is running at http://t.me/bookdetails_bot

Usage

Send this to the bot in PM or in a group where the bot is added.

/book <search term>

Develop/Contribute

• Run npm install

• Install Heroku cli

• Run heroku login and login

• To run locally, create a file .env and put these in it -

   GOODREADS_KEY=<key>
   GOODREADS_TOKEN=<token>
   TELEGRAM_BOT_TOKEN=<bot:token>
  

• Then run heroku local web

• To run on heroku server, follow heroku tutorial to connect the forked repo with your heroku account

• Then set the secret config -

   heroku config:set GOODREADS_KEY=<key> -a <app-name>
   heroku config:set GOODREADS_TOKEN=<token> -a <app-name>
   heroku config:set TELEGRAM_BOT_TOKEN=<bot:token> -a <app-name>
  

• Then deploy on heroku using your preferred method.