This is the source code of my Telegram bot.

0. Git, lol
1. Python (3.10 or later) or Docker (preferably with docker-compose)
2. A Telegram Bot API token

0. Clone the repo, obviously.
1. Save your token into the token.txt file in the root of the repo.
2. You might want to make yourself an admin of the bot. To do that, put your Telegram id to the admins.txt file in the root of the repo.

0. For the ease of development, you can copy the docker-compose.debug.yml file to docker-compose.override.yml: it increases the verbosity of logging and disables auto-restarts of the service.
1. Just run

docker-compose up

0. Set up a venv:

python3.10 -m venv venv
source venv/bin/activate

1. Install the dependencies:

pip install -r requirements.txt

2. Run the code:

python3 -m junior

• You can change logging verbosity by passing a LOGLEVEL env variable. Like this if you're on Linux:

LOGLEVEL=DEBUG python3 -m junior

• You can change the path to the sqlite database file by passing a DATABASE_FILE env variable.
• You can change the path to the file with bot admin ids by passing a BOT_ADMINS_FILE env variable.
• You can change the path to the file with your token by passing a BOT_TOKEN_FILE env variable.
• Or you can just directly pass the token via a BOT_TOKEN env variable.
• And you can change the path to bot's tmp directory by passing a TMP_DIR env variable.

Just open a pull request or an issue! I'll be grateful.

• rust branch: an abandoned attempt to rewrite the same bot in Rust.
• python-old branch: my old Telegram bots, written in Python a long time ago (not too proud of that code).
• java branch: an abandoned attempt to rewrite my old bots into Java.