superCodingBot

THE TELEGRAM BOT FOR COMPETITIVE PROGRAMMERS

ABOUT

superCodingBot is a telegram bot built in python 3 using python-telegram-bot wrapper.

Getting ratings from hackerrank,hackerearth,codeforces,spoj and codechef in the form of ranklist
Automatic updation of ratings
Getting upcoming competitions and setting reminder for them
Getting ongoing competitions
Compiling and running code from the bot itself
Getting questions from codechef and codeforces according to choice
Getting topics from geeksforgeeks.com
Subscribing to get Question of the day

Create your bot and Get your telegram bot token from BotFather
Get your hackerrank api key from Hackerrank
Register to Clist and get your username and api key
Get your telegram chat id
- You can get your chat id by first messaging to the bot and then checking the url https://api.telegram.org/botYourBOTToken/getUpdates
  It will look somewhat like this
  {"update_id":8393,"message":{"message_id":3,"from":{"id":7474,"first_name":"AAA"},"chat":{"id":,"title":""},"date":25497,"new_chat_participant":{"id":71,"first_name":"NAME","username":"YOUR_BOT_NAME"}}}
  the id of the chat object is your chat id
Edit the config.ini file with your telegram bot token, hackerrank api key, clist user name, clist api key. Also put your chat id in admin chat id. You can put multiple admin chat ids seperated by comma. Admins will be notified by the bot whenever data or questions are updated and will have access to admin commands. You can also put your persistent storage point if you will be using OPENSHIFT ONLINE to host the bot (If name of your volume is df then put /df/ in the field) otherwise just leave the field blank

when you want to rebuild your project

first of all go to deployments and select the latest deployment
downscale the no of pods to 0 and wait for it to happen
IMPORTANT go to deployment configuration and detach the storage. A deployment will start, let it finish
Go to builds, select name and click on start build
After finishing build a deployment will start, let it finish
Go back to deployment configuration and add storage with same mount point as previous and wait for a new deployment
After deployment finishes, go to deployments. Select latest and scale the pod to 1.
YOU CAN REMOVE YOUR GITHUB REPOSITORY BUT MAKE SURE TO RECREATE IT WHEN REBUILDING YOUR PROJECT

/help - get a list of all the commands
/compiler - compile and run code
/register - to register your handle with the bot
/unregister - to unregister your handle from the bot
/update - manually initiate update of your data
/geeksforgeeks - browse topics from geeksforgeeks.com
/randomcc - get random question from codechef according to choice
/randomcf - get random question from codeforces according to choice
/ranklist - get a ranklist according to choice
/upcoming - to get a list of upcoming competitions and setting a reminder for them
/ongoing - to get a list of ongoing competitions

/dontremindme - to tell the bot not to remind you about a competition

/subscribe - to subscribe for question of the day /unsubscribe - to unsubscribe from question of the day