Eusoff Meal Bot

Eusoff Meal Bot is a telegram bot that shows breakfast and dinner for Eusoff Hall for the current week.

It uses Google Apps Script as a webhook for the telegram bot.

Done by @glennjs

Requirements

To use this, you'll need.

1. Telegram bot Token
2. A google account
3. Spreadsheet IDs to the breakfast and dinner menus in google sheet format (upload files from this folder to google drive and convert to google sheets files through File > Save as Google Sheets)

Installation

1. With npm installed, install clasp globally

   npm install -g @google/clasp

2. Install yarn. Run yarn to install dependencies

3. Enable the Google Apps Script API

4. Then login to Google, clasp login

5. Create the google app, clasp create --title "Eusoff Meal Bot" --type webapp --rootDir ./src

6. Add the file order from .clasp.json.example into .clasp.json.

7. Copy secret.js.example and make a new file secret.js, replace all placeholder values with your own, except for deployment id.

8. Deploy it using clasp deploy to get the deployment id.

   Take note of the deployment id after Created version x

   Created version 1.
   - <<YOUR DEPLOYMENT ID HERE>> @1.
   

9. Now set the deployment id in secret.ts along with the bot token and sheet ids.

10. Run clasp push and clasp deploy -i <<YOUR DEPLOYMENT ID HERE>> to push your code to Google Scripts and deploy it again

11. Run clasp open to open it in google script

12. Click bot/utility.gs, and click Run > Run Function > setWebHook

    Like so

    

13. It will ask you to authorise (for the first time), and it should be ok to do so, click Advanced > Go to Eusoff Meal Bot (unsafe) > Allow

    

14. Open the app by clasp open --webapp, select the version with your deployment id to open. (This will automatically reset the telegram bot's webhooks)

    This should be seen.

    

15. Open your telegram bot! It should show you the breakfast and dinner for the current week!

    

Tips

• When you want to update your telegram bot with the current code, use clasp push && clasp deploy -i <<YOUR DEPLOYMENT ID>>