PTB Django Cookiecutter

A simple cookiecutter to create Python Telegram bots, wrapped with Django.

Based on this cool projects

• python-telegram-bot (PTB)
• Django
• Cookiecutter

What's inside

• Django app with dev and prod environments.
• Model to store bot users data.
• Command to run the bot.
• Admin web interface to see the bot data.
• Authentication mechanism.
• Some example callbacks.
• Small engine to wrap the bot callbacks.
• Ready for deployment using Docker via docker-compose.

Quickstart

Install the latest Cookiecutter if you haven't installed it yet:

pip install -U cookiecutter

Create your bot using this cookiecutter:

cookiecutter gh:lugodev/ptb-django-cookiecutter

This will clone the cookiecutter and launch a wizard to help you customize your new bot.

Bot engine folder structure

Once you have generated your new bot, you will get this folders structure:

• src/bot: The bot source code.
  • core:
    • authentication.py: The authentication mechanism.
    • callbacks.py: Your callbacks here.
    • commands.py: Your commands here.
    • constants.py: Your conversation states, defined as constants.
    • conversation.py: Your conversation callbacks.
    • engine.py: The bot engine.
    • messages.py: The message filter callbacks.
    • models.py: Your bot models, defined as Django model classes.
    • renderers.py: Methods to render your messages.

Install your bot dependencies

You have two primary options to install de bot Python dependencies: pip or Poetry. You can also use pipenv, virtualenvwrapper or another package managers. We recommend Poetry.

1. Install dependencies using Poetry:

   curl -sSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/python-poetry/poetry/master/get-poetry.py | python - cd src/bot poetry install

✨ Tip (optional): Create these aliases on on your .bashrc or .zshrc, like this

```
alias poetry="python3 -m poetry"
alias django="poetry run ./dev.py"
alias djr="django runserver"
alias djm="django makemigrations && django migrate"
alias djmr="djm && djr"
```

1. Or install your dependencies using pip.

   pip3 install -r requirements.txt

Initialize your bot environment variables

Place your env vars to the .env file (never push this file to the repo):

SECRET_KEY=your django random secret key
TELEGRAM_TOKEN=your bot token

Start the bot

Start the bot (using the previously suggested alias, optional):

django runbot

Or using Poetry:

python3 -m poetry run ./dev.py runbot

Or using Python:

python3 dev.py runbot

Deploy your bot

Clone your repo to the server, and create this folder structure:

• codebase: The repo itself, the source code.
• storage: The place to store the DB and other persistant files.

Create and fill the ./codebase/.env file with the environment vars.

Then, deploy, using docker-compose:

cd codebase
docker-compose up --build -d

Bots created with this cookiecutter

None yet. Want to be the first? Submit your bot if it's open source.

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