Montefood bot

This bot is currently being used by Victoria Montefood, a catering restaurant. Many clients were writing or making calls on Telegram already, so they decided to automate this process with a bot.

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Features

  • All orders are being sent to an admin
  • Add a new menu category or an item in config.rs
  • Leave a note for an order
  • Store users in the database (users.ron) with info about their total order sum, their preferred name and location for the next order
  • Send a newsletter to subscribed users (for admin)
  • Subscribe/unsubscribe option for clients
  • Leave a feedback
  • Extensive logging of every Result<T> or Option<T> allows to easily backtrack at what moment something went wrong.

How to use

  1. Export your Bot token that is given to you by BotFather. Check Teloxide instruction how to set it up depending on your OS.
  2. git clone https://codeberg.org/nippleofanape/Telegram-MontefoodBot.git && cd Telegram-MontefoodBot
  3. either RUST_LOG=trace cargo run for an unoptimized development build, or cargo build --release for a release build. Run the binary in target/release.
  4. Many string literals are still inside main.rs so need to modify them or export to config.rs.
  5. To get a UserId(i64) either send a message to a bot and read it, or use Json bot