A Telegram Bot that recommends recipes of a chosen category.
- It's depolyed HERE on Heroku
- Ruby
- telegram-bot-ruby gem
- Telegram's BotFather
- RSpec
- Nokogiri
- httparty
- The first step in creating our bot is to talk to the BotFather.
- Open Telegram app
- Type in the search form BotFather.
- Hit the start button which will display a list of commands that we can use to interact with the BotFather.
- Let’s create our bot using the command
/newbot. - Now we have to register for a username, note: it must end in bot.
- Command
/tokenwill give us an API token to access our bot through HTTPS. (We will use it later)
To get a local copy up and running follow these simple steps.
- Install Ruby
- From terminal or cmd type
gem install rspec
- Click on the "code" button above in this page and copy the link of the repository
- From terminal or cmd type type
git cloneand paste the link you copied in the previous step, then hit Enter - Go to the cloned repository using
cdcommand
- Run
bundle installto install the required gems in your computer - Type
export TOKEN=+ the token value we got form BotFather - From within the directory of the project, type
ruby bin/botto run the exectuable file and hit Enter
- Open Telegram app
- Search
Chefo_recipes_botor your bot's name - Click on the Start button or type
/startto initialize the bot. - Type
/suggestto get a recommendation of a book. You can choose from the categories listed: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinners, Appetizer and Snacks, Salads, Deserts etc... - Type
/helpto see the list of available commands - Use CTRL + C in your terminal to stop the bot
From the root folder, run rspec to run the tests
👤 Bishoy Samwel Faheem
- GitHub: @Bishoy Samwel Faheem
- LinkedIn: Bishoy Samwel
- Twitter: @bisho
Contributions, issues, and feature requests are welcome!
Feel free to check the issues page.
Give a ⭐️ if you like this project!
- Inspired by:
- Fritz The Librarian Bot
- Allrecipes Web Scraper
This project is MIT licensed.