MickaelAlliel / telebot

Telebot

First Setup

Creating a new telegram bot

1. Open a session with BotFather
2. Type /newbot
3. Enter display name of the bot
4. Enter username for the bot (must end with bot)
5. Don't forget to save the token!

(Optional) Disable bot from joining groups

1. Open a session with BotFather
2. Type /setjoingroups
3. Enter the name of the bot. @example_bot
4. Enter Disable

(Optional) Disable privacy to receive all messages from group (and not only those with / prefix)

1. Open a session with BotFather
2. Type /setprivacy
3. Enter the name of the bot. @example_bot
4. Enter Disable

Configuration

All configuration must be set as environment variables
In development (default), it will look for a .env file next to the binary/entrypoint ./cmd/parser.go.

Configuration Key	Type	Default	Description
ENV	string	development
PORT	int	3000	Webhook Server port to listen on
TG_BOT_TOKEN	string		(REQUIRED) Telegram Bot Token
TG_WEBHOOK_URL	string		(REQUIRED) Webhook server URL for your bot to send updates to
ALLOWED_PRIVATE_USERS	[]string	[]	List of users (comma-separated) to allow handling messages from private chat with bot. Example: user_a,user_b
DB_HOST	string	localhost
DB_PORT	int	5432
DB_USERNAME	string	postgres
DB_PASSWORD	string	postgrespassword
DB_DATABASE	string	postgres
DB_UNIX_SOCKET	string	``	Used to connect to GCP Cloud SQL using Unix Socket

Parsing Messages

Expenses

Example message:

200
shopping
cash

Required data:
ON SEPARATE LINES! In any order

• Amount (float64)
• Category
• Payment Method