currentsea / mombot

mombot

Telegram bot for https://bitcoin.mom -- helps prevent scammers

Setup

• Acquire a telegram token for your bot deployment by following the Telegram provided instructions at this URL: https://core.telegram.org/bots#6-botfather
• Place the token you acquired in the step above into the value of token, banhammer_key, and banhammer_secret in the credentials_example.py file and rename it to credentials.py by running cp credentials_example.py credentials.py
• Place the the location of your redis host in config_exapmle.py and copy to config.py by running cp config_example.py config.py
• You need redis installed and configured properly, you wll connect to a redis store for this bot to work
• Make sure you test the bot within a virtualenv that you create by installing the requirements located in reuirements.txt with pip install -r requirements.txt from within your virtualenv

Bot Tokens

• To run this bot independently, you'll need your own token and bot username which can be acquired by following the instructions on the Telegram page located here: https://core.telegram.org/bots#6-botfather
• Additionally, You'll need a BANHAMMER_SECRET and BANHAMMER_TOKEN token for this bot to properly function with the blacklist located at https://bitcoin.mom - these are currently only given to a select number of individuals.
• If you would like to request your own BANHAMMER_SECRET and BANHAMMER_TOKEN please send a message to me on keybase: