Parmelä Bot

“The most helpful bot you’ve ever seen on Telegram.”

This is a personal fun project to try various AI and Telegram bot things.

It is not set up for general usage and breaks most software development practices for good code.

Test coverage is terrible, but I do have lots of fun trying out new things here and there.

Prepare for development

1. Install/update node.js, LTS recommended.
2. Run npm install to install dependencies.
3. Run npx prisma migrate dev to create the local sqlite3 database.
4. Copy .env.example to .env.
5. Fill in the required data into .env:
   1. Register a telegram bot with @BotFather and fill in USERNAME and the TELEGRAM_TOKEN given from @BotFather.
   2. Create an account for the OpenAI API and fill in the OPENAI_API_KEY.
   3. Other config options as wanted.

Run in development

1. Update dependencies: npm install
2. Run new database migrations: npm run migrate
3. Execute: npm run run-dev

Run in production

1. Update dependencies: npm install
2. Build: npm run build
3. Remove dev dependencies: npm install --omit=dev
4. Deploy (however you like)
5. Run database migrations: npm run migrate-prod
6. Execute: node dist/index.js