An attempt at creating a Telegram Bot for the ElixirDelhi Telegram group.

• Greeting new members
• Processing Telegram's Global Commands

Currently, the bot is deployed on fly.io. To deploy changes to production, simply run:

fly launch # first time setup only
fly deploy

The bot requires the following environment variables to be set:

1. BOT_TOKEN - the token for the Telegram bot. Check out the docs about how to create a bot and get your token.

2. DATA_DIR - the path to the /data directory on the server, optional.

It is important to note that the bot runs on a single server currently, since it's polling for Telegram Updates, rather than listening for them.

Although it shouldn't be too difficult to switch to a webhook-based approach 🙃.

Currently, exporting necessary environment variables, starting iex and adding a member to the ElixirDelhiBot Playground.