This project is a Telegram bot written in Rust, using the teloxide library. The bot allows users to subscribe or unsubscribe from daily suttas (ancient buddhist scriptures) in Russian translation of the Theravada branch of buddhism. The messages are sent from a collection of files in a specified directory, with one file randomly chosen each day. The bot uses SQLite for storing subscription data.

Note that this project currently support only Russian language.

The data is not stored in the repo to avoid conflict with authors. All suttas are taken from site theravada.ru, which is one of the biggest sites with Russian translations of Theravada teachings and suttas.

Inspired by Reading Faithfully.

1. Set the required environment variables
2. Run the project: cargo run

1. Install Docker: https://docs.docker.com/get-docker/
2. Build the Docker image: docker build -t suttabot .
3. Run the Docker container, passing in the environment variables:

docker run -d --name=suttabot -e RUST_LOG=info -e TELOXIDE_TOKEN="<TELOXIDE_TOKEN>" -e DATABASE_URL="sqlite:///db/suttabot.db" -e DATA_DIR="/data" -v "<LOCAL_DB_PATH>:/db/suttabot.db" -v "<LOCAL_DATA_PATH>:/data" suttabot

Contributions are welcome! If you have any suggestions, bug reports, or feature requests, please open an issue or submit a pull request.

This project is licensed under the MIT License.

All suttas and texts are taken from theravada.ru website and SuttaCentral repository.