Quiz bot for Telegram and Vkontakte

See for yourself:

• Telegram bot
• VK bot

Python should already be installed. This project is tested on Python 3.11. You may use other versions as you will, but YMMV.

Clone the repo / download code

Using virtual environment virtualenv/venv is recommended for project isolation.

Install requirements:

pip install -r requirements.txt

This project uses redis database. Create and connect your instance at redis website

To configure those settings, create a .env file in the root folder of the project and put in there the following:

• TELEGRAM_BOT_TOKEN - Access token of your bot. You get one from BotFather Telegram bot when you create a bot.
• TELEGRAM_LOGGING_BOT_TOKEN - same as above, but used for sending logs. Can be the same bot or separate as the main one.
• TELEGRAM_USER_ID - Your numeric Telegram ID. Can be checked by writing to special user info bot. Used to recieve logs.
• LOGGING_LEVEL - Desired logging level
• REDIS_HOST - Host of your redis database
• REDIS_PORT - Port of your redis database
• REDIS_PASSWORD - Password for your redis database
• REDIS_DB_NUMBER - The ID of your redis database
• QUIZ_FILE_PATH - Filepath to your quiz file in KOI8-R encoding (see quiz_questions/example.txt)

Telegram and VK bots are separate and should be launched by executing tg_bot.py and vk_bot.py

python tg_bot.py  # launches Telegram bot
python vk_bot.py  # launches VK bot

For Telegram bot to be able to send messages, send it a /start command

Telegram bot example:

Vkontakte bot example:

The code is written for educational purposes on online-course for web-developers dvmn.org.