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2.6 KiB
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77 lines
2.6 KiB
Markdown
[](https://gitlab.ctrlz.es/mgdelacroix/birthdaybot/-/commits/main)
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# Birthday bot
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A simple bot that notifies of birthdays, posting the contact
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information of the subject so you can reach them easily.
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## Configuration
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There is an [example configuration file](./example-config.yml) that
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can be used as a base to create your own configuration, and there is a
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[birthdays example CSV file](./birthdays.csv) to load the data.
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### Template file
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The template can be configured using the `birthday_template` config
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parameter to point to the template file. The template uses the Go
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Template Format, and has the following properties available:
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- `.Name`: the name of the person whose birthday we're notifying.
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- `.Email`: the email of the person.
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- `.Phone`: the phone of the person, as a string.
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- `.YearOfBirth`: the year that the person was born, as number.
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- `.MonthOfBirth`: the month that the person was born, as number.
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- `.DayOfBirth`: the day that the person was born, as number.
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There are as well some functions available to be used:
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- `getYearsOld`: receives the year that a user was born, and returns
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how old the user is getting.
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### Pictures
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Alongside the notification for each birthday, the bot can send a
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picture for the person with the notification message. For this to
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happen, you need to put the pictures in a folder, and point the
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configuration to this folder using the property `birthdays.pictures`.
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Each file should be named accordingly of the birthday it corresponds
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to. The naming schema is `YEAR_MONTH_DAY_PHONE.png`, so for a person
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born the 1st of July of 2020, with the phone 4567, the file name for
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their picture would be `2020_6_1_4567.png`
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## Run the bot
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To get help for the bot command, run:
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```sh
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$ ./birthdaybot -help
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Usage of ./birthdaybot:
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-config string
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path to the configuration file (default "birthdaybot.yml")
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```
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To run the server with the development defaults, run:
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```sh
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$ make run
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```
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## Roadmap
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- [X] Create the bot scaffold
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- [X] Define how to read the birthdays info
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- [X] Add a logger instance to the config
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- [X] Add config validation on server creation
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- [X] Add options to the server
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- [X] Pass logger to the server through an option
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- [X] Configure logger through config (levels and such)
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- [X] Reduce logger verbosity (through levels)
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- [X] Add pictures to birthday notifications
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- [X] Create a configurable template to fill with each notification
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- [ ] Create different message systems to use with the bot
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- [X] Telegram
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- [ ] Email
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- [ ] Mattermost
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- [ ] Enjoy!
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