Digest Bot

Telegram digest bot for group chats. Final version is 1.0.7, deprecated in favor to Digest Service project.

Bot records all messages with the #digest tag and displays them on the /digest command. Thanks to the creators of node-telegram-bot-api and the creators of Node.js — powerful and awesome JavaScript framework.

Install instructions

For example, GNU/Linux:

• Install the Node.js and the npm Node.js package manager;

sudo apt-get install nodejs
sudo apt-get install npm

• Clone repository into deploy directory;

cd ~/Deploy/
git clone https://github.com/EXL/DigestBot DigestBotDeploy

• Install node-telegram-bot-api, request and others modules into deploy directory;

cd ~/Deploy/DigestBotDeploy/
npm install # or npm ci

• Write your token in BOT_TOKEN_ACCESS.json file.

• Run with node DigestBot or nodejs DigestBot and enjoy!

Additional information

• Please read big tutorial (in Russian) about creating various bots for Telegram.

• New Digest Service comprehensive project based on Spring Boot and Java Telegram Bot API implementation by @pengrad.