Check Salary Bot

Telegram bot that converts Chilean pesos into Argentine pesos using the value from the website global66.com

Getting Started

These instructions will get you a copy of the project up and running on your local machine for development and testing purposes.

Prerequisites

What things you need to install the bot and how to install them

Python 3

You have to install dependencies that requirements.txt contains.

pip install -r requirements.txt

Create a copy of your .env file

cp .env.example .env

'YOUR TOKEN' should be replaced by the API token you received from @BotFather. Visit Introduction to the API to see how to get that token and more information.

TOKEN="YOUR TOKEN"  

Actually, the bot run using WebHook so if you want to run locally you have to use polling instead of WebHook. Change this code:

updater.start_webhook(listen="0.0.0.0",
                           port=PORT,
                         url_path=TOKEN)
    updater.bot.set_webhook("https://checksalarybot.herokuapp.com/" + TOKEN)

to:

updater.start_polling()

Installing

You only have to run the main.py file:

python3 main.py

How to use and example

Put /get_salary 'your salary in Argentine pesos' and the bot will return your salary converted to Chilean pesos.

Built With

• python-telegram-bot - This library provides a pure Python interface for the Telegram Bot API.

Author

• Nicolás Liendro - Initial work - GitLab, GitHub and LinkedIn