Django Telegram Bot

Introduction

Django Telegram Bot is the base class which helps to build custom commands for the django models. It allows getting historical data from django models, as well as develop custom pre-defined filters and execute custom django management commands (i.e. those which are executed through python manage.py $command)

Install

Django Telegram Bot requires python 3.8 or later and has the following dependencies:

• python-telegram-bot >=13.3
• django>=2.2.20

Django Telegram Bot can be installed from pypi.org using pip:

$ pip install telegram-django

Running The Bot

Define your command class extending the base

For example:

from myapp.models import MyAppModel

from telegram_bot.telegram_conversation import TelegramConversation


class MyAppConversation(TelegramConversation):
    def __init__(self, logger, model_datetime_property, suffix):
        super().__init__(logger, model_datetime_property, suffix)
        self.model = MyAppModel

    @property
    def custom_commands(self):
        return [
            'custom_command1',
        ]
        
    @property
    def saved_filters(self):
        return [
            'count',
        ]

    def get_count(self, update):
        amount = self._get_initial_queryset().count()
        self._reply(update, amount)
        self._default_query_context()

The method custom_commands must return a list of defined django commands which can be executed by this conversation handler. These commands are standard django commands which are normally executed via python manage.py $command. The method saved_filters must return a list of defined custom filters. The filter's body must be implemented in the same class using the convention get_$filter_name, like in the example above: for count filter the get_count method is implemented.

Add the following sections to your settings.py:

Define application in INSTALLED_APPS

    INSTALLED_APPS = [
        ...
        'django_telegram',
        ...
    ]

Add section TELEGRAM_BOT for bot configuration

TELEGRAM_BOT = {
    'CONVERSATIONS': [
        'myapp.package1.package2.MyAppConversation',
    ],
    'TOKEN': '',
    'COMMANDS_SUFFIX': None,
    'HISTORY_LOOKUP_MODEL_PROPERTY': ''
}

Add section django_telegram_bot to logger configuration

LOGGING = {
...
    'loggers': {
...
        'django_telegram_bot': {
            'handlers': ['console'],
            'level': 'INFO',
        },
...
    },
...
}

Settings description:

Running The Bot

python manage.py start_bot

Middleware

The library also provides a way to analyse responses of type application/json and based on defined rules send pre-defined messages. To enable middleware add the following line into your settings.MIDDLEWARE

MIDDLEWARE = [
...
    'django_telegram.bot.middleware.TelegramMiddleware',
]

Extend previously defined configuration in settings.py with the following

TELEGRAM_BOT = {
    'CONVERSATIONS': [
        'myapp.package1.package2.MyAppConversation',
    ],
    'TOKEN': '',
    'COMMANDS_SUFFIX': None,
    'HISTORY_LOOKUP_MODEL_PROPERTY': '',
    'MIDDLEWARE': {
        'CHAT_ID': -12356789,
        'RULES': [{
            'view': 'view',
            'trigger_codes': [204, 200],
            'conditions': {
                'type': 'value',
                'field': 'field',
                'field_value': 'value',
            },
            'message': 'Message when this condition happened!',
        }],
    }
}

Settings description:

Testing

• Create virtualenv
• Install project dependencies

python -m pip install --upgrade pip
pip install poetry
poetry update

• Run tests

poetry run pytest

License

Django Telegram Bot is released under the Apache License Version 2.0.