telegram-bot

A functional, generic telegram bot template that includes a sqlite database and the general bot setup

setup

pip install -r requirements.txt
export API_KEY="your-key"
python3 main.py

features

This bot does ‘nothing’ but is completely functional!
What is does:

• setup logging
• setup database (SQLite) for users
• register default start and help command
• register functional callback handler
• register message listener

also included

• default inline keyboards
• util wrapper send_message
• get_user_by_chat_id for quick db access
• converter of ‘normal’ text to escaped Markdown text
• simple examples for normal and inline commands for better understanding
• TODO Marks on all the main points to fill this project with functionality

The only thing you need is to fill this structure with life!

about

This repository contains code that was written by me across various bot-projects, like:

• https://github.com/nonchris/covid-data-bot
• https://github.com/the-rising-tide/certificate-bot

I collected the most useful and generic functions to save me some time when starting the next bot-project.

dependencies

This project requires python-telegram-bot and SQLAlchemy