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Preparations Source Code
To run the source code version of the bot a python 3 installation is requiered. Many Linux distributions already have python 3 preinstalled. To install python 3 on a Ubuntu Server distribution you can follow the following steps:
- Open a terminal window (only if you are using a graphical user interface)
- Install the Ubuntu software properties by entering
sudo apt update
and
sudo apt install software-properties-common - Add the PPA repository with
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:deadsnakes/ppa - Finally install python 3 with the two commands
sudo apt update
and
sudo apt install python3.7
If there was already a Python 3.6 version installed use this tutorial to upgrade to Python 3.7.
Python 3 installation packages for Windows or MacOs can be downloaded on the official site.
On Windows: Be sure to check the "Add Python 3.X to PATH" Checkbox
For the next step the package-management-system of python, called pip, is required. On Windows pip will be installed with the Python 3 installer. On Linux and MacOS pip must be installed manually.
On Linux (Ubuntu Server) enter the following commands in the terminal:
sudo apt update
sudo apt install python3-pip
On MacOS enter the following two commands in a terminal window:
curl https://bootstrap.pypa.io/get-pip.py -o get-pip.py
python3 get-pip.py
In the implementation of the bot script two libraries are used. First is the Advanced Python Scheduler that lets us schedule Python code to be executed later. The second one is the python-telegram-bot library, which provides a Python interface to the Telegram Bot API.
The two mentioned libraries can be installed with the package-management-system called pip (see Software). To install you can enter the two following commands:
pip3 install python-telegram-bot
pip3 install apscheduler
Or you navigate to the "Install" folder of the bot script in your terminal and enter:
pip3 install -r requirements.txt
Next page: Download, Configure and Run