joystreamtelegrambot

Joystream Forum Post Notification Tool

This bot notifies a Telegram chat about events on the Joystream chain.

Demo: https://t.me/JoyStreamOfficial

Many thanks to imOnlineMonitor for providing example with polkadot chain (Kusama).

Installation

Joystream Node
npm/Nodejs

git clone https://github.com/joystream/community-repo
cd community-repo/community-contributions/joystreamtelegrambot
yarn

Configuration

Open config.ts and fill in the variables:

• token: To get a bot token talk to @botfather on Telegram.
• chatid: See below to find id of your group.

Then run npm run start or yarn run start. Alternatively you can manually build with npm run build and run for example node dist/src/bot.js --verbose --channel --council --forum --proposals. For other options see below.

To test status of storage providers, add their domains to to storageProviders.ts.

Get chatid

Full explanation: How to get chatid

1- Add the bot to the group.
Go to the group, click on group name, click on Add members, in the searchbox search for your bot like this: @my_bot, select your bot and click add.

2- Send a message to the group.

3- Go to `https://api.telegram.org/botXXX:YYYY/getUpdates` (replace XXX:YYYY with your bot token)

4- Look for "chat":{"id":-zzzzzzzzzz,
-zzzzzzzzzz is your chat id (including the negative sign).

Run npm run start (for example inside screen/tmux window or systemd).

Running

Command	Description
npm run start	run without parameters.
npm run all	like --channel --council --forum --proposals
npm run verbose	like 'all', log information on every block
npm run quiet	like 'all' without output
npm run channel	only channel info
npm run forum	only forum info
npm run council	only council info
npm run proposals	only proposal info
npm run [module]-verbose	run [module] and log every block
npm run dev	run all modules verbosely, respawn on file changes
npm run [module]-dev	run [module] verbosely, respawn on file changes

If you need other combinations, add them to package.json

Storage size notification bot for discord

Sends actual volume for Joystream Storage Providers to a channel every X hours or via PM with /storagesize.

Development

• Take a copy of .env.example and add token of the bot and rename to .env
• npm install
• nodemon

Deployment

• Take a copy of .env.example and add token of the bot and rename to .env
• npm install
• Use pm2 or any process managers to deploy
  • npm install pm2@latest -g or yarn global add pm2
  • pm2 start --name storagesize node index.js

Joystream Discord Video Bot

This Discord bot announces new video uploads.

Installation

git clone https://github.com/Joystream/community-repo
cd community-repo/community-contributions/joystreamvideobot 
yarn && yarn run build

Configuration

Get the channelid

You should use the channnel id instead of it's name. How to get the channel id of a channel: 1- Open up your Discord Settings 2- Go to Appearance 3- Tick Developer Mode (And close the Discord settings) 4- Right click on your desired channel 5- Now there's an option Copy ID to copy the channel id

Open config.ts and set channelId. Run yarn && yarn run build to apply your changes.

Get the Discord Token

Follow the procedure

Running the bot

TOKEN=<YOUR DISCORD TOOKEN HERE> node lib/src/bot.js

Development

To test api queries open https://testnet.joystream.org/ -> Settings -> change interface operation mode to Fully featured and got to https://testnet.joystream.org/#/chainstate.

License

GPLv3

Contributions

• bitoven created the first version written in javascript.

• Oct 2020: migration to typescript (l1dev)

• 2021: maintenance and more functions (l1dev)

• Feb 2022: merged storagesizebot (nexusfallout) and joystreamvideobot (isonar)