MetallumBot

A simple Telegram bot written in Java to retrieve information from Metal Archives

Requirements

• Java 17+

• Maven

Features

• Retrieve the link to a random band's page.

• Retrieve the first 10 upcoming albums from the upcoming albums list.

Configuration

The bot requires the following two environment variables to exist:

• METALLUM_BOT_TOKEN: Your telegram bot token.

• METALLUM_BOT_NAME: Your telegram bot username.

Additionally, some tests make use of the following environment variable:

• CHAT_ID: The unique ID of the chat where the bot's messages should be sent.

Building the bot

• Clone this repository .

  git clone https://github.com/errebenito/metallumbot or Download this repo as zip and unzip.

• Go to the metallumbot folder.

• In your command line of choice, type the following:

  mvn clean package (optionally add -DskipTests to skip execution of tests).

This will build metallumbot-X.Y.Z.jar in the target directory, where X.Y.Z is the current version number for the bot.

License

Released under the GNU General Public License version 3 or, at your option, any later version. See LICENSE.md for details.

License