Yet another telegram bot. This one is a poet.

SaaghiBot is a telegram app based on nodejs. It polls updates from Telegram and processes them.

It returns random quatrains out of 106 quatrains which are listed in omarkkhayyam_list.yaml file. It also supports a basic search.

Try mentioning @SaaghiBot in Telegram chats, with or without search terms.

First make sure you have a not so old version of nodejs with ES6 support installed. Then from npm:

# yarn global add saaghibot // or alternatively npm i -g saaghibot

Then run the bot using your bot token:

$ TELEGRAM_BOT_TOKEN=<bot_token_obtained_from_botfather> saaghibot

Obtain a bot token from BotFather and make sure to enable inline queries for your bot using /setinline. Then run the following:

$ yarn install
$ TELEGRAM_BOT_TOKEN=<bot_token_obtained_from_botfather> yarn start

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