Telegram-DMI-Bot is the platform that powers @DMI_bot, a Telegram bot aided at helping students find informations about professors, classes' schedules, administration's office hours and more.

###Setting up a local istance If you want to test the bot by creating your personal istance, follow this steps:

• Clone this repository or download it as zip.
• Copy config/token.conf.dist into "token.conf" and write your telegram bot token here. (If you don't have a token, message Telegram's @BotFather to create a bot and get a token for it)
• Send a message to your bot on Telegram, even '/start' will do. If you don't, you could get an error.
• If your system supports bash shell scripting, launch "restarter.sh". Alternatively, you can launch "telegrambot.py" with your Python interpreter, even if doing so will not restart the bot in the event of a crash.

For the bot istance to be executed, your system needs:

• Python 2
• python-pip
• python-bs4
• python-beautifulsoup

install with pip

• python-telegram-bot
• pydrive

###Using the live version The bot is live on Telegram with the username @DMI_Bot. Send '/start' to start it, '/help' to see a list of commands.

Please note that the commands and their answers are in Italian.

###License This open-source software is published under the GNU General Public License (GNU GPL) version 3. Please refer to the "LICENSE" file of this project for the full text.

###Credits This project is made possible thanks to the contributions of Stefano Borzì, Adriano Ferraguto,Vincenzo Filetti and Simone Di Mauro.