A telegram bot based on a finite state machine
This telegram bot contains three features:
- Search for uniform-invoice prize winning numbers
- Search for newest articles in PTT website
- Search for vocabulary in English-Chinese(Traditional) dictionary
- Python 3
Simply use pip3 command to install from the requirements file
pip3 install -r requirements.txtBelow is the list of required packages:
- Flask
- transitions
- pygraphviz (For visualizing Finite State Machine)
- python-telegram-bot
- requests (For HTTP requests)
- beautifulsoup4 (For pulling out data from HTML files)
API_TOKEN and WEBHOOK_URL in app.py MUST be set to proper values.
Otherwise, you might not be able to run your code.
You can get API_TOKEN from @botfather (web link)
You can either setup https server or using ngrok as a proxy.
ngrok would be used in the following instruction
(or run the executable file with same arguments)
ngrok http 5000After that, ngrok would generate a https URL.
You should set WEBHOOK_URL (line 11 in app.py) to your-https-URL/hook.
python3 app.py
The initial state is set to init.
There has three branches leave from init. These branches correspond to different features memtioned above.
If the user entered "1", "2" or "3", init is triggered to advance to the corresponding state, and telegram bot will ask for more details in order to retrive data the user want
Finally, if the result has sent to the user, states will go_back to init state
Sequence of actions started from typing "1" at init state
Sequence of actions started from typing "2" at init state
Sequence of actions started from typing "3" at init state
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