SimpleSlideShow.Bot

What is SimpleSlideShow.Bot?

I created this Telegram bot for my wedding. The idea was, that the guests should be able to put pictures, taken with their smartphones, on a digital photo wall. To avoid writing an entire app, I decided to go with a Telegram bot. If you don't know Telegram, go and get it. It's awesome.

So, everybody can send their pictures to the bot. The bot will save the images to a specific folder and respond with a friendly message. And that's it. I created a separate little project to implement the photo wall / slide show.

How to use?

Step 1 - Create your own bot

Follow the intstructions of the BotFather to create your own bot. At the end of the process, the BotFather will send you an API-token. We will use it later.

Step 2 - Checkout this repository

Get the sources of SimpleSlideShow.Bot and execute dotnet restore.

Step 3 - Update the appsettings.json

Insert the Telegram API-token into the api-token property of the appsettings.json file. You can also insert the path to the directory, where the images should be stored.

{
    "api-token": "YOUR_API_TOKEN_GOES_HERE",
    "saveImagesTo": "c:\\store\\images\\here"
}

Step 4 - Build

dotnet build

Step 5 - Run

dotnet run