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

2. Build docker image and run it with docker-compose:

docker-compose up --build

3. 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

4. Now you can perform a test.

node test-publish.js

5. You can send notifications to the bot by connecting to the container redis instance from any application and post messages to the configured queue.