A GhostWorld/Enid Telegram bot
- spits out Enid-tastic images and captions (for now just one command available:
/justkillme) - can be used as an inline bot via inline queries: just type
@YourBotNameinto a conversation with anyone, and wait for the magic to happen!
To run it locally, you need Python and pip installed. You'll also need the python-telegram-bot library, which you can install by doing pip install python-telegram-bot.
Creating a bot is pretty easy using the Telegram Documentation. Once you've done so, and you've created your token, you need to enable the inline mode for your bot (read more about it here). If you don't do so, the inline queries won't work!
Create a config.py file and add your Telegram API token to it:
TELEGRAM_SECRET_KEY = '269725652:AAFUfzsbHAnl_SbRnJa3aOTrctC8A3oAwME'
Your config will be imported directly in the main file, and it's also added to your .gitignore file by default (so you don't accidentally check your secret key into git).
That's it, you're ready to go!
Deploying with heroku is pretty straightforward. You can find the configuration for heroku on the heroku branch (some small changes in config need to be made in your main.py file). If you change your app's main file's name, make sure you update your Procfile accordingly. Before (or after) you deploy, you also need to set up your Config Vars accordingly — see the heroku documentation on that.
If you have Telegram, you can ping @EnidBot or bring the bot into a conversation by typing @EnidBot at the start of a message (the space is important!). Let yourself be amazed!