Barnacle Bot

I always want to learn English but I'm so unmotivated, and I want to learn programming too, but I'm so lazy. Because of that, I'm trying to learn programming while making a Telegram bot to help myself learn English. Now, my English and programming skill that I have still sucks :sweat_smile:.

Quick Start Setup

1. Donwload latest Barnacle Bot.
2. Run terminal program and open directory where you put barnaclebot.
3. Create TELEGRAM_TOKEN variable in your shell. e.g. export TELEGRAM_TOKEN=1235335:BlahbLaHblAh
4. Run program with ./barnaclebot.
5. Start your bot in Telegram client.

List Bot Command

• /mean <word>: Get definition of the word.
• /slang <word>: Get slang definition of the word.
• /synonym <word>: Get synonyms of the word.
• /quote: Get random quotes.

Credit

• Telebot MIT License. Telegram bot framework in Go. "I never knew creating Telegram bots could be so sexy!", who said that :joy_cat:.
• Urban Dictionary. "Crowdsourced online dictionary for slang words and phrases", according to WikiPedia.
• (unofficial) Google Dictionary API. Google does not provide API for google Dictionary so someone created one.
• Type.fit. It's web for keyboard typing practice, but I steal use their API to get random quotes.