Wandering Bot. A primitive tracking bot

What does it do?

A simple bot that sends requests to a specified website/service with a provided interval and sends a message if the destination is not available for some reason.

Persistance is included. Turning off and turning on will load previously created visit destinations.

Pre-requirements

1. Create a token for your bot through @BotFather on Telegram
2. Install Docker
3. Create a .env file inside wandering-bot folder.
4. Put this in the created file and substitute BOT_TOKEN with yours:

MONGO_CONNECT=mongodb://mongo:27017/bot-db
BOT_TOKEN=<your-bot-father-generated-token>

5. GNU Make utility. Linux (pre-installed probably), Windows, Mac

Usage locally

Full bot:

make compdock

Only bot without the database:

make -i dock

Deployment

Via only a ssh key for a private repository

Required secrets:

• CONN_STRING - your mongodb connection string
• DOCKER_USERNAME - your GitHub username. Used to pull an image from the repository
• GHCR_TOKEN - generated personal access token. Can be created in the developer settings on GitHub. Used to pull an image from the private repository. Create link. Set read access in for packages.
• PRIVATE_SSH_KEY - generated ssh-key.
• REMOTE_HOST - your remote server IP
• REMOTE_PORT - ssh port to connect with
• REMOTE_USERNAME - remote server user to connect as via ssh
• TELEGRAM_TOKEN - your @BotFather token

Additional steps:

• Add the public part of the generated ssh key (*.pub file) to your remote's authorized_keys file in the .ssh folder.