Weather & Counter Telegram bot

Bot is deployed on GCP, it's telegram username is @weathercounterbot. Some latency may be experienced (mostly due to cold starts)

How to run

Important

Ensure the .env file has the following entries with their respective API keys.

• OPENAI_API_KEY
• BOT_KEY
• WEATHER_KEY

Note

To use webhooks, you can set the PORT and URL environment variables. PORT needs to be one of 443, 80, 88 or 8443 (only ports supported by Telegram's API). URL is the publicly accessible URL of the device (http(s)://<domain_or_ip>/).

Docker

1. Build image docker build . -t <image_name>
2. Run container with environment variables from .env file docker run --env-file .env <image_name>

Native

1. Ensure Python 3.12+ is installed.
2. Ensure poetry is installed.
3. Run poetry install to install dependencies.
4. Run the project with poetry run main

Considerations

1. Would it be out of scope to get rid of the buttons and use function calling? Wouldn't that result in too many chat completions?
2. If the bot is in a group, should the counter be unique for each user?
3. Should the counts be persisted?
4. The current implementation uses polling to get updates from Telegram's API. For an event based approach, it's possible to use webhooks instead, which would reduce unnecessary resource usage.
5. What's worth testing?
   • The counter is the only functionality with fixed, testable, expected behaviours, but it's too basic and simple (add tests for the sake of it?).
   • Testing with python-telegram-bot should be possible

Reference

• python-telegram-bot
• OpenAI
• OpenWeatherMap