teamup-telegram-bot

This bot lets you post events (tasks or room bookings) from the the teamup calendar into a telegram chat group, so people can sign up for them. It's designed to help (public/collective/participatory/collaborative) groups to organize work.

Alternatively, other calendars are also supported.

after you created an event in your teamup calendar

post it in your telegram group/channel, so a person can assign hirself

how to use

To use this application in your telegram group, you must first complete following steps:

1. create a calendar on teamup
2. create a telegram Bot
   • start a conversation with @Botfather and write /newbot
   • give your Bot a name, maybe a nice picture and please mention this website in your Bot description
3. start the program for your telegram Bot by clicking on (you need an account but it's free)
   • it will build&start the program from the current source code
4. invite the new Bot to a telegram group/channel and post /postcalendar CalendarName Date e.g. /postcalendar VeKü 2020-08-26
   • note that in a channel your bot needs permissions to post like any user

This application is in beta and will be further developed after some feedback from you.

how to update

After this program is deployed to heroku it will not be updated automatically! If you are interested in more features, you should check out new releases from time to time.

To update your bot manually, you have to delete the program in heroku (under settings) and click on the heroku deploy button from step 3. again. Unfortunately this will cause data loss at the moment (but only usernames). To avoid problems you have to click on the reload button in your telegram group of each still relevant calendar or repost them again.

for developers

start the DB with docker-compose up

manual deployment

• gradle build
• heroku deploy:jar build/libs/teamup-telegram-bot*-all.jar --app teamup-telegram-bot

manual test

• https://core.telegram.org/bots/webhooks
• check bot status https://api.telegram.org/bot{token}/getWebhookInfo
• send message manually curl -v -k -X POST -H "Content-Type: application/json" -H "Cache-Control: no-cache" -d '{ "update_id":10000, "message":{ "date":1441645532, "chat":{ "last_name":"Test Lastname", "id":1111111, "first_name":"Test", "username":"Test" }, "message_id":1365, "from":{ "last_name":"Test Lastname", "id":1111111, "first_name":"Test", "username":"Test" }, "text":"/start" } }' "localhost:8443/"