Hi everyone, this is repository for my personal demo project on connecting Telegram and OpenAI to provide answers to all the users questions using OpenAI GPT-3. This is written in Python and served with Flask. This bot can only handle:

• receive text message generate image from it using Openai and send it back
• it has a built-in menu options as well

You can interact with this bot here.

I have recorded a quick video on the setup of this chat-bot, in case you want to replicate the work, you can watch it here.

There are couple of things that you need before you get started following this repository.

• OpenAI API key, since it is open to all, you can create an account here and access the key.
• You need a telegram bot API key as well, you can get it with interacting with Botfather on Telegeram here. Alternatively, you can one of my video on how to create a Telegram bor here.
• Mongodb Atlas account for saving all the messages to mongodb.
• API requesting application like Postman, Insomnia, etc.
• NGROK for local testing.

To replicate the work of this repository and run it locally, you need to follow these steps:

• create a .env file inside the root directory, create these environmental variables:

  TOKEN=YOUR TELEGRAM BOT API KEY
  HEADER_TOKEN=A RANDOM STRING FOR SECURITY
  OPENAI_API_KEY=OPENAI API KEY
  ME=YOUR TELEGRAM ID
  CONNECTION_STRING=mongodb+srv:https://USERNAME:[email protected]
  DB_NAME=MONGODB DB NAME
  COLLECTION_NAME=MONGO DB COLLECTION NAME
  

• create a virtual environment and activate it before installing the packages
• install all the required dependencies from the requirements.txt file

pip install -r requirements.txt

• run the server with either of the following commands

python run.py

gunicorn run:app

• start NGROK engine on the same port as the python application is running.
• set the webhook by sendin a POST request on the following url

http://localhost:5000/set-telegram-webhook

pass the following body with the request in raw json format

{
    "url": "YOUR NGRK URL/telegram",
    "secret_token": "HEADER_TOKEN DEFINED IN THE .env FILE"
}

• in case you want to set menu for the Telegram bot, you can send a POST request on the following url

http://localhost:5000/set-telegram-menu-commands

pass the following body with the request in raw json format

{
	"commands": [
		{
			"command": "/contactme",
			"description": "Contact me"
		},
		{
			"command": "/youtube",
			"description": "My youtube"
		}
	]
}

I am Raj Kapadia, I am passionate about AI/ML/DL and their use in different domains, I also love to build chatbots using Google Dialogflow ES/CX, I have backend development experience with Python[Flask], and NodeJS[Express] For any work, you can reach out to me at...

• LinkedIn
• Fiverr
• Upwork
• Youtube