community-repo/community-contributions/joystreamtelegrambot

Joystream Forum Post Notification Tool

Many thanks to imOnlineMonitor for providing example with polkadot chain (Kusama).\ This script will notify several events on Joystream chain to Telegram group/channel/chat of your choice.\ Current demo is https://t.me/jsforumnotification

Getting Started

Requirements

Joystream Node\ Yarn and Nodejs

Run

   git clone https://github.com/bitoven-dev/joystreamtelegrambot
   cd joystreamtelegrambot
   yarn install

Replace yourowntoken on const token = 'yourtoken'; with your Telgram bot token. You can get it by talking to @botfather

Replace yourownchat on const chatid = 'yourchatid'; with your group/channel the bot will notify into. Bot needs to be added as admin, but it only needs to post message permission. How to get chatid

1- Add the bot to the group.
Go to the group, click on group name, click on Add members, in the searchbox search for your bot like this: @my_bot, select your bot and click add.

2- Send a dummy message to the bot.
You can use this example: /my_id @my_bot
(I tried a few messages, not all the messages work. The example above works fine. Maybe the message should start with /)

3- Go to following url: https://api.telegram.org/botXXX:YYYY/getUpdates
replace XXX:YYYY with your bot token

4- Look for "chat":{"id":-zzzzzzzzzz,
-zzzzzzzzzz is your chat id (with the negative sign). 

Run node yourchoiceofscript.js preferably inside screen/tmux window or systemd

License

GPLv3

Notes

I've just started to learn programming (JS), so any suggestions or PR is greatly appreciated 😁