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* Use Cwd::utf8
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* Add check on first call of abs_path()
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Aleesa-Telegram-bot - Simple Telegram chatty bot

About

It is based on Perl modules Telegram::Bot and Hailo as conversation generator.

Config located in data/config.json, sample config provided as data/sample_config.json.

Bot can be run via bin/aleesa-telegam-bot and acts as daemon.

Installation

In order to run this application, you need to "bootstrap" it - download all dependencies and libraries.

You'll need "Development Tools" or similar group of packages, perl, perl-devel, perl-local-lib, perl-app-cpanm, sqlite-devel, zlib-devel, openssl-devel, libdb4-devel (Berkeley DB devel), make.

After installng required dependencies it is possible to run:

bash bootstrap.sh

and all libraries should be downloaded and built.

N.B.

If bot is unable to post to channel due to limitated permissions, it will die. It if possible to change this behavior by patching Telegram/Bot/Brain.pm:

--- Brain.pm	2019-07-01 04:04:17.000000000 +0300
+++ Brain.pm.new	2020-09-05 22:25:20.941373455 +0300
@@ -237,8 +237,9 @@
 
   my $res = $self->ua->post($url, form => $form_args)->result;
   if    ($res->is_success) { return $res->json->{result}; }
-  elsif ($res->is_error)   { die "Failed to post: " . $res->message; }
-  else                     { die "Not sure what went wrong"; }
+  elsif ($res->is_error)   { warn "Failed to post: " . $res->message; }
+  else                     { warn "Not sure what went wrong"; }
+  return "";
 }
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