Jieba-bot

This is a simple Telegram inline bot providing Chinese word segmentation powered by the Jieba algorithm.

The official instance is @jiebabot.

Build

Requries rustc 1.39+ for async/await.

# debug build
cargo build
# or, optimized build
cargo build --release

Running

Configurations including bot token is provided at runtime via environment variables.

• BOT_TOKEN: required. This is what you get from botfather when you create a bot.
• RUST_LOG: controls the logging behavior, for example: info, debug, jieba_bot=debug, tbot, etc. See the log crate.
• HTTPS_PROXY: in the form of http[s]://host:port. Currently only http and https proxy is supported.

RUST_LOG=info BOT_TOKEN=xxxxxx cargo run --release

Alternatively, you can use systemd to manage the service. A demo systemd service and an EnvironmentFile are included. Place the service file in /etc/systemd/system, put the executable at /usr/local/bin/jieba-bot, put jieba-bot.conf in /etc, and issue a systemctl daemon-reload. Then you can start and enable the jieba-bot service using normal systemd commands.

Miscellaneous

Q: Why not write this in Python?

A: Because I'm afraid of programming in dynamically-typed languages :)

Privacy

This bot records nothing at all. All messages are discarded once processed.

License

This work is released under the WTFPL license. A copy of the license is provided in the LICENSE file.