pogoraidbot 0.4.13

A telegram bot to organize PoGo raid that it can be self hosted

Important

The bot is now in beta version

Description

A telegram bot to organize PoGo raid that it can be self hosted.

If you publish a raid screenshot in a group where this bot is present, it identifies the raid an provides you a poll to organize the raid.

Requirements

Python

The bot needs Python version 3.7 or newer.

You can install pogoraidbot from pypi:

$ pip install pogoraidbot

Tesseract

The bot needs an installation of Tesseract OCR and a pre-trained neural network for english. Both can be found from the official Arch and Ubuntu repositories.

Refer to this link.

Redis

The bot requires a dedicated instance of Redis database.

Refer to this link.

Run

The bot needs to know, the bot api token, that you can obtain from @BotFather and the address of redis instance.

To understand how to provide these information to the bot:

$ python3 -m pogoraidbot

usage: pogoraidbot [-h] [-t TOKEN] [-r REDIS] [-a SUPERADMIN] [-b BOSSES_FILE] [-o BOSSES_EXPIRATION]
                   [-g GYMS_FILE] [-y GYMS_EXPIRATION] [-e] [-d DEBUG_FOLDER] [-v] [--info] [--debug]

optional arguments:
  -h, --help            show this help message and exit
  -t TOKEN, --token TOKEN
                        telegram bot token
  -r REDIS, --redis REDIS
                        redis url in "redis://{host}[:port]/{db}" format
  -a SUPERADMIN, --superadmin SUPERADMIN
                        superadmin's id
  -b BOSSES_FILE, --bosses-file BOSSES_FILE
                        JSON or CSV file contains possible pokémons in the raids. It can be also
                        provided over http(s)
  -o BOSSES_EXPIRATION, --bosses-expiration BOSSES_EXPIRATION
                        Validity of the bosses list in hours
  -g GYMS_FILE, --gyms-file GYMS_FILE
                        JSON file contains gyms and their coordinates. It can be also provided over
                        http(s)
  -y GYMS_EXPIRATION, --gyms-expiration GYMS_EXPIRATION
                        Validity of the gyms list in hours
  -e, --env             Use environment variables for the configuration
  -d DEBUG_FOLDER, --debug-folder DEBUG_FOLDER
                        debug folder
  -v                    number of -v specifics level of verbosity
  --info                equal to -vv
  --debug               equal to -vvv

An example:

$ python3 -m pogoraidbot -t [BOT_TOKEN] -r redis://192.168.15.2:4044/3

Dockerized version [recommended]

Requirements

The dockerized version of the bot requires docker and docker-compose to work.

Refer to this link.

Installation

You can choose two kinds of setup:

Use the image on Docker Hub

1. Download .env and docker-compose.yaml files and put them in a folder.

2. Edit them to adapt the setup to your requirements(see below).

3. Run the containers.

   docker-compose up
   

Compile your own Docker image

1. Clone the whole repo and init the submodule.

   git clone https://github.com/RobertoBochet/pogoraidbot-dockerized.git ./pogoraidbot
   cd pogoraidbot
   git submodule update --init
   

2. Edit the .env and docker-compose.yaml to adapt the setup to your requirements(see below).

3. Build and start the containers.

   docker-compose build
   docker-compose up
   

Configuration

Required

In .env replace:

• [BOT_TOKEN] with your bot's token
• [SUPERADMIN_ID] with the Telegram id of the main admin
• [TIME_ZONE] with your time zone (refer to this table on column TZ database name)

Optional

• Add support to gym identification

  In .env set the env PGRB_BOT_GYMS_FILE with the position of your gyms file.

• Add support to boss identification

  In .env set the env PGRB_BOT_BOSSES_FILE with the position of your bosses file.

• Make redis data persistent

  Uncomment the line command: ["redis-server", "--appendonly", "yes"] in docker-compose.yaml.

  If you want make the redis data persistent also to container destruction uncomment also the volumes section of the redis service and set the env PGRB_REDIS_PATH.

• Assign static IP for the virtual network

  Uncomment all the three networks sections in docker-compose.yaml and set the three env PGRB_NETWORK_* with IP and subnet in .env.

Credits

In this project are used the following Python libraries:

• python-telegram-bot (LGPLv3 License)
• opencv-python (MIT License)
• pytesseract (GPLv3 License)
• redis (MIT License)
• requests (Apache 2.0 License)