Telegram bot based on StarCgat

This is a quick and dirty telegram sample bot in python based on StarChat.ai. The program uses an in memory datastore for sessions data. If you want to contribute with a proper database, eg SQLite, you are wellcome!

Fork this repository (optional)

• Fork the repository on your account. You could clone this rep directly, but then you won't be able to push your changes on github. Click on top left button "Fork" :)
• Clone: git clone [email protected]:MY_ACCOUNT/starchat_telegram_bot.git
• Set this repository as "upstream", so you can rebase your repository everytime we make a change: git remote add upstream [email protected]:GetJenny/starchat_telegram_bot.git

In the future, when you want to update your repository with GetJenny's one, just type:

git fetch upstream
git rebase upstream/master

Requirements

• python3
• docker

Setup

Install starchat on localhost

Start the service following the instructions on StarChat Documentation (5-10 minutes)

Create a new index. On a terminal (Unix) type:

curl -v -H "Content-Type: application/json" -X POST "http://localhost:8888/index_management/create"

Make a Python3 virtual environment (optional)

Optional, but recommended!

virtualenv -p python3  env3_telegram
source env3_telegram/bin/activate

Install telegram and urllib3 packages

pip install python-telegram-bot --upgrade
pip install urllib3

Configure

Load a configuration file into StarChat and apply the changes:

curl -v --form "csv=@starchat_configuration_sample.csv" http://localhost:8888/decisiontable_upload_csv
# Apply:
curl -v -H "Content-Type: application/json" -X POST "http://localhost:8888/decisiontable_analyzer"

If you want to delete the old configuration:

curl -v -H "Content-Type: application/json" -X DELETE http://localhost:8888/decisiontable

Create a new Telegram bot

You need a telegram account of course!

• Go on [https://web.telegram.org/#/im?p=@BotFather]
• Type the command "/newbot" to create a new bot, follow the instructions
• Collect the unique token access which is something like this:

Use this token to access the HTTP API: XXXXXXX:YYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY

• Edit the file telegram_starchat.py and replace the token access into the main function
• python3 telegram_starchat.py