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Joystream Forum Post Notification Tool

This bot notifies a Telegram chat about events on the Joystream chain.

Demo: https://t.me/JoyStreamOfficial

Many thanks to imOnlineMonitor for providing example with polkadot chain (Kusama).

Installation

Joystream Node\ npm/Nodejs

git clone https://github.com/joystream/community-repo
cd community-repo/community-contributions/joystreamtelegrambot
yarn

Configuration

Open config.ts and fill in the variables:

token: To get a bot token talk to @botfather on Telegram.
chatid: See below to find id of your group.

Then run npm run start or yarn run start. Alternatively you can manually build with npm run build and run for example node dist/src/bot.js --verbose --channel --council --forum --proposals. For other options see below.

To test status of storage providers, add their domains to to storageProviders.ts.

Get chatid

Full explanation: 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 message to the group.

3- Go to `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 (including the negative sign).

Run npm run start (for example inside screen/tmux window or systemd).

Running

Command	Description
`npm run start`	run without parameters.
`npm run all`	like `--channel --council --forum --proposals`
`npm run verbose`	like 'all', log information on every block
`npm run quiet`	like 'all' without output
`npm run channel`	only channel info
`npm run forum`	only forum info
`npm run council`	only council info
`npm run proposals`	only proposal info
`npm run [module]-verbose`	run [module] and log every block
`npm run dev`	run all modules verbosely, respawn on file changes
`npm run [module]-dev`	run [module] verbosely, respawn on file changes

If you need other combinations, add them to package.json

Development

To test api queries open https://testnet.joystream.org/ -> Settings -> change interface operation mode to Fully featured and got to https://testnet.joystream.org/#/chainstate.

License

GPLv3

Notes

bitoven created the first version written in javascript.
traumschule migrated and refactored it to typescript.

README.md