NotificamBot/README.md

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NotificamBot

Telegram bot to receive notifications reads from a queue (pub/sub on Redis).

Configuration

Rename .env.sample in .env and configure it:

KEY DESCRIPTION
BOT_TOKEN Telegram Bot Token created with @BotFather
CHAT_ID Your chat id with the bot (you can configure this after the first launch of the bot from client)
REDIS_CHANELL Channel where the bot reads
REDIS_HOST Host redis (don't touch if you use docker-compose).
REDIS_PASSWORD Redis password

Usage

  1. Clone the project with
git clone https://github.com/franjsco/NotificamBot.git
  1. Build docker image and run it with docker-compose:
docker-compose up --build
  1. Search your bot on telegram and start it. The chat id will be displayed on the terminal. Copy it into .env and stop (CTRL+C) and start containers.
docker-compose up
  1. Now you can perform a test.
node test-publish.js
  1. You can send notifications to the bot by connecting to the container redis instance from any application and post messages to the configured queue.