WebApp Telegram FastAPI

Overview

This project is a web application skeleton for building a Telegram bot using FastAPI and Python Telegram Bot. It includes integration with MongoDB as the database backend.

Features

• FastAPI Backend: Utilizes FastAPI framework for building the web application backend.
• Python Telegram Bot: Integrates Python Telegram Bot library for interacting with the Telegram API.
• MongoDB Database: Uses MongoDB as the database backend for storing bot data.
• Skeleton Structure: Provides a basic structure to kickstart the development of a Telegram bot web application.

Usage

1. Clone the repository:

git clone https://github.com/sibeardev/webapp_telegram_fastapi.git

2. Navigate into the cloned directory:

cd webapp_telegram_fastapi

3. Install dependencies:

   • pip install virtualenv
   • python -m venv .venv (create a virtual environment)
   • source .venv/bin/activate (activate the virtual environment)
   • pip install -r requirements.txt

4. Set up environment variables: Create a .env file and define the necessary environment variables.

   TELEGRAM_TOKEN=  # Telegram API Token
   MONGODB_URL=mongodb://localhost:27017  # MongoDB connection URL
   X_TOKEN=fake-super-secret-token  # Additional secret token
   WEBHOOK_URL= # Webhook URL

Note: For testing purposes, you can use ngrok to expose your local server to the internet. After installing ngrok, run ngrok http 8000 in a separate terminal window. Then, insert the ngrok URL generated for your server as the value for the WEBHOOK_URL variable in your .env file.

5. Start the application: docker-compose up

Contributing

Contributions are welcome! Feel free to submit issues, feature requests, or pull requests.

License

This project is licensed under the MIT License.