Objectivism quotes bot and website

This is a Telegram bot that sends quotes from Objectivist books, articles and videos. It also has a website where you can see the quotes and search for them.

Subscribe to the Telegram bot: @FrasesDeAynRandBot.

Checkout the website aynrand.josefabio.com.

Host your own bot and website

Requirements

• deno. Find the installation instructions at deno.land.

.env

• WEB_PORT The port on which the front-end will run.
• API_PORT The port on which the API will run.
• AUTH_TOKEN The secret token that will be used to authenticate requests. Use any secure password.
• ADMINS_IDS The ids of the administrators who will be able to use it privately. You can obtain them with @userinfobot. Separate the ids with commas, without spaces.
• BOT_TOKEN The bot's token. You can create a bot with @BotFather.
• MONGO_URI The URI of the MongoDB database. You can create a free database at MongoDB Atlas.
• PUBLICATION_HOUR The hour at which the bot will send the quotes. It's just the hour, a simple number from 0 to 23.
• TIMEZONE The timezone of the bot. You can find the list of timezones at Wikipedia.

Running the bot

Copy the constants.example.ts file to constants.ts and modify, if you want, the sending time.

Copy the .env.example file to .env and modify the environment variables.

To run the bot, execute deno task run.

To see the possible commands, execute deno task.