Plus In Chat Bot

This is a simple telegram bot which allows counting user statistics within specific group based on message replies. As an additional feature, allows to track and share body weight within the group. Not supposed to run in large groups

Deployment

This bot is designed for GCP Cloud Functions as execution environment and with GCP Firestore as storage for user statistics.

Cloud function requirements:

• Runtime: Python 3.10
• Allow unauthenticated access
• Memory: 128M

Environment variables required:

• CREATOR_ID: id of the person who will have superuser permissions and will receive error notification in case something happened on backend
• BOT_TOKEN: Telegram bot token which will be used for sending messages

Bot Prerequisites:

• Bot should Allow Groups
• Privacy mode must be disabled
• Update fields to listen: ["message", "my_chat_member"]

Setting Webhook

curl -X "POST" "https://api.telegram.org/bot<BOT_TOKEN>/setWebhook" \
  -d '{"drop_pending_updates": true, "url": "<Function URL>", "allowed_updates": ["message", "my_chat_member"]}' \
  -H 'Content-Type: application/json; charset=utf-8'