Messenger Bot

This is a Telegram bot used to send messages to channel admins.

Installation

• clone the repository
• create a file named .env in root directory of the project. containing the bot token and admin group id like so:

BOT_TOKEN="<bot token here>"
ADMIN_GROUP_ID="<admin group id here>"

note that the admin group id shoud be a negative integer and the bot token should be of the form 123456:ABC-DEF1234ghIkl-zyx57W2v1u123ew11. for more information go to Telegram Bot API Documentation

• If you're running on production environment, you should have an environment variable with the name of NODE_ENV and value of production. So if you're on production server, add this line before continuing:

export NODE_ENV=production

• install dependencies:

npm install

• run the server

npm start