🤖 Anonymous ChatBot in Telegram 📱

A ChatBot that allows users to exchange messages anonymously. The main idea is to allow people to communicate without having to reveal their identity. A bot was created for the demonstration @TokumeiChatto

System dependencies

• Python 3.11+
• Docker
• docker-compose
• make
• poetry

Deployment

Via Docker

• Rename .env.dist to .env and configure it
• Configure url in alembic.ini
• Run make app-build command then make app-run to start the bot

Via Systemd service

• Configure and start PostgreSQL
• Rename .env.example to .env and configure it
• Configure url in alembic.ini
• Run database migrations with make migrate command
• Configure telegram-bot.service (» Read more)

Development

Setup environment

poetry install

Update database tables structure

Make migration script:

make migration message=MESSAGE_WHAT_THE_MIGRATION_DOES rev_id=ID_MIGRATION

Run migrations:

make migrate

Update locales

1. Parse new used localization keys to update locales files (make i18n locale=TRANSLATION_LOCALE)
2. Write new locales in .ftl files by translations/TRANSLATION_LOCALE
3. Restart the bot

Used technologies

• Aiogram 3.x (Telegram bot framework)
• PostgreSQL (database)
• SQLAlchemy (working with database from Python)
• Alembic (lightweight database migration tool)
• Project Fluent (modern localization system)