This project contains the source code of a Telegram-Chat-Bot-Backend, which interacts with the Telegram Bot Api in order to perform donations to a local pub. It works as follows:
- You connect to the bot (via privat chat in Telegram)
- You order drinks (by clicking a button on the chat keyboard), where currently beer is a placeholder for everything
- The bot takes your drink-orders and collects them on your virtual/remote tab (Deckel in German)
- You can choose a price per unit
- finally you can donate the collected amount to the account of the connected pub (This part is not implemented yet)
This idea has been born during the the current Corona pandemic, where local pubs are struggeling to survive. Friends of mine came up with the idea to donate some amount for every drink we would normally have in a pub, but now we're consuming at home. Which we call: the remoteDeckel (remoteTab)!
This repo is currently mainly an experiment around the Telegram Bot Api, written in Rust.
The project contains a main function which sets up the bot and it's configurations.
And a lib, which contains different serializable types, that can be used in Telegram communications, database-types and persistence functionality.
This project uses several different rust crates. The main functionality comes from the following:
- reqwest for setting up the webHook, which connects the bot to the Telegam-Bot-Api
- rocket provides routing for incoming Updates/Messages
- rocket_contrib for dealing with JSON-data in requests and responses
- serde, serde_json for serialization of data-structures (primarily from/to JSON)
- serde_yaml to read in configuration (like the api_key)
- diesel for dealing with a Postgres database
This project is NOT a client-library. If google brought you here while looking for such an implementation, you're most likely actually looking for something like telebot.