ExcusesGeneratorBot

This is an attempt to make a simple telegram bot with FastAPI for serverless hosting without any bot frameworks. The idea is inspired by Excuses.ai website.

About

You can use this bot to generate excuses. It uses a reverse engineered api from Excuses.ai to generate the results.

Why FastAPI?

Because, FastAPI is the fastest micro framework for python. Faster than Flask, and it is Asynchronous.

Deployment

For Development & Testing

• Fork & Clone this repo

git clone https://github.com/anzilr/ExcusesGeneratorBot.git

• CD to the project directory

cd ExcusesGeneratorBot

• Install dependencies

pip install -r requirements.txt

• Edit the BOT_TOKEN value in config.py

BOT_TOKEN = os.environ.get("BOT_TOKEN", "<YOUR BOT TOKEN FROM BOTFATHER>")

Don't forget to clear the token when you are committing the file to git.

• Start the server

uvicorn main:app --reload

This will restart the server automatically whenever you make changes to the code.

Deploy to Deta Space

You can deploy this bot to deta, and it's free for lifetime.

• Go to Deta.space and sign up. Don't forget to check the developer mode on.

• Set up the space CLI (follow this documentation).

• Fork & Clone this repo

git clone https://github.com/anzilr/ExcusesGeneratorBot.git

• CD to the project directory

cd ExcusesGeneratorBot

• Create a new micro

space new

Follow the instructions

• To push your code to space, run the following command

space push

• After the process finished, it will give you a link for the app. Copy that.

• To set up the webhook, replace <BOT_TOKEN> and <APP_LINK> with your bot token and the link you copied from the previous step.

https://api.telegram.org/bot<BOT_TOKEN>/setWebhook?url=<APP_LINK>

• After editing the above link, copy and paste it to a browser and hit enter. You should get a response like below

{"ok":true,"result":true,"description":"Webhook was set"}

• Now, go to deta.space. You can see the app pinned on there. Click on the 3 dots and select Settings -> Configuration. Enter your bot token then save.

• Now send /start in your bot, It will respond.

• If you make any changes in the code, just run space push command. It will update the bot and restart.

Deploy to Vercel

Click the button below to start deploying to vercel