Unict reservation Telegram bot

This UNDER DEVELOPMENT project is used for the students of University of Catania to book a space for study into the campus.

With this self-hosted bot you can use your Telegram app to reserve a seat into your favority study room/library.

Setup

Clone this repository into your VM

git clone https://github.com/dcariotti/unict-reservation

Setup the .env file or environment

cf=
password=
driver_url=
username=
TELOXIDE_TOKEN=

Where cf is the username of Smartedu, password is the password of that account, driver_url is the location where geckodriver is running, username is your Telegram username and TELOXIDE_TOKEN is the Telegram bot API token.

This bot uses geckodriver to create an instance of browser. If you want to run a geckodriver instance in your local machine and use that (so the driver_url=http://localhost:<port> you have to run (in parallel)

geckodriver --port=<port>

Run

Now you can create the build of the project (cargo build and then execute the binary file) or just run the software with cargo run.