What is this?

This is a joke between friends to make annoying reminders. The user (master) will give the bot a message to spam, then the bot will send a message every /spamint seconds and delete it after /delint seconds since sent. Multiple messages can be configured, each having independent interval settings.

The dependencies are ancient: the code has not been updated since sept, 2017.

Development Environment

Activate (setup if is the first time) the virtual env:

$(./scripts/setup-devenv.sh)

This will install virtualenv and dependencies listed in requirements.txt. Then it will source it. If dependencies are already installed, this will only activate the existing virtualenv.

Run

With virtualenv activated run:

(venv) SPAMBOT_TOKEN='your-bot-token-here' python main.py

Example

Start a chat with the bot then:

1. Case 1: Simple message with default intervals (spam interval 5s, delete interval 1s)

you: /spam simple
# second 0
bot: simple
# second: 1
bot: *deletes message*
# second 5
bot: simple
# repeat

2. Case 2: Larger message with id and custom intervals

you: /spam some big message #big
# second 0
bot: some big message
you: /spamint #big 10
bot: New interval set for #big: 10.0 seconds
you: /delint #big 25
bot: New interval set for #big: 10.0 seconds
# now bot will send every 10 seconds and delete after 25 (overlap)

To stop messages, run:

you: /stop simple
you: /stop #big