Telegram pocketbook bot

Description

This is a telegram bot that can save and keep you notes

Purpose of project

The goals of development of this bot are:

• upgrade golang skills - working with filesystem, http, service architecture etc;
• host and run own applications on a cloud services (in this case - on Digital Ocean);
• learn CI (continuous integration) and autodeployment using GitHub Actions.

Deployment

Deploying on a server

To run this bot on server, you need to set up:

• Digital Ocean Droplet (server);
• Digital Ocean Container registry;

Next, you will need to fork repository and clone it:

git clone https://github.com/slbmax/telegram-pocketbook-bot
cd telegram-pocketbook-bot

Then you should specify GitHub secrets:

• TELEGRAM_TOKEN - token for telegram bot;
• DIGITALOCEAN_ACCESS_TOKEN - Digital Ocean access token;
• HOST - address of Digital Ocean droplet;
• USERNAME - username of host (root by default)
• PASSWORD - password to connect to droplet server

To perform autodeployment, you can only push some changes and GitHub Actions will do it automatically.

Local deployment

Clone repository:

git clone https://github.com/slbmax/telegram-pocketbook-bot
cd telegram-pocketbook-bot

If you have Go 1.18 installed, just run:

export TOKEN='your_telegram_bot'
go run main.go

If not, you can run docker container:

docker build .
docker run -e TOKEN=your_telegram_token docker_container_id