hoi15a / tg-last-message

Outputs the last message recieved by a telegram bot to stdout to be used for something like i3blocks

Last Telegram Message

This is a simple script that will fetch the latest message from a Telegram bot account and print it to stdout. This can then be used in something like i3blocks to display the message in your i3bar for example.

Setup

1. Clone the repository
2. Change directory to the repo and then edit the example config file to use your bot token.
3. Install dependencies with npm
4. Run the script

git clone https://github.com/Hoi15A/tg-last-message.git
cd tg-last-message
cp tg-config.example.json tg-config.json
vim tg-config.json
npm install
npm start

Config

The tg-config.json has 3 values that can be set:

• token: This is your Telegram bot api token.
• charLimit: This lets you set a maximum lenght for the output (set to -1 for no limit)
• counter: Which is used to track the last seen Telegram message. You should never need to change this.

tg-last-message's Issues

Add ability to display the name of the person who posted the message

Pretty self explanatory and seems like a good idea.

Allow setting a max message length

Currently the entire message will just be output as is.
There should be an option to limit how long this gets to avoid situations like this

Provide i3bar example configs

In the readme you mention This can then be used in something like i3blocks to display the message in your i3bar for example.. If you could provide some example configs in this repo on how to incorporate tg-last-message into the i3bar that'd be great.

Script suddenly stops working when not run manually

I have no idea why this is happening. Implementing some kind of logging may help figure this one out.