Geiser Ping Bot

Plain Telegram bot with miscellaneous simple features, like whoami or ping.

I'm using this as a skeleton base for any other future Telegram bots I make.

Config

cp config.example.toml config.toml

Edit the bot_token to the actual token from your bot.

Setup and run

Set up the environment (commands for Linux bash):

python3 -m venv .venv
source .venv/bin/activate
python -m pip install poetry
poetry install
poetry run python main.py

Questions

Why use asyncio? The telegram library already handles signals by default.

I wrote a private discord-telegram bridge bot in the past, and the way the discord library was made, I had to use asyncio to avoid one bot holding the other forever. Since this is intended as a skeleton for other bot projects, I wanted to have this scenario covered already.