Elyabot

Telegram bot to fetch coin price data from crypto exchanges

Written on python

Tested OS: Ubuntu 16.04 LTS

How To install:

In commandline, run:

curl -L https://github.com/streamtv85/elyabot/raw/master/install.sh | bash

Edit config file:

Go to /usr/local/bin/bot-service/elyabot/config.ini and put your bot's token at token= line

How to run:

In console mode so it is writing messages to the stdout:

/usr/local/bin/bot-service/run.sh

In detached mode using 'screen'

screen -S bot -d -m /usr/local/bin/bot-service/run.sh

To autostart the bot on reboot:

crontab -e

then add line:

@reboot ( sleep 90 ; screen -S bot -d -m /usr/local/bin/bot-service/run.sh )

or, in commandline:

echo @reboot ( sleep 90 ; screen -S bot -d -m /usr/local/bin/bot-service/run.sh ) > crontab-fragment.txt
crontab -l | cat - crontab-fragment.txt >crontab.txt && crontab crontab.txt

Working with screen sessions:

to attach to the session:

screen -x bot

to detach: press Ctrl-A D

to stop the bot: either

pkill screen

or

screen -XS bot quit

Log file is located at

/usr/local/bin/bot-service/elyabot/bot-service.log

you can monitor the output with

tail -f /usr/local/bin/bot-service/elyabot/bot-service.log

Update the bot to the current version from GitHub:

either:

/usr/local/bin/bot-service/update.sh

or (better)

curl -L https://github.com/streamtv85/elyabot/raw/master/update.sh | bash

OR you can update the bot with Telegram command /update for this to work, make sure that the user you are running the bot with does have permissions to run sudo commands without password prompt! How to enable this:

sudo adduser <username> sudo
sudo visudo

In the editor, append following line

<username> ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD:ALL

And save your changes

Telegram commands:

price - Get current ELYA/BTC prices