Telegram Auction Bot

This is an auction bot for Telegram. It is written in Golang and uses the telegram-bot-api. This bot is mainly developed for course Algorithmic Game Theory at the Sharif University of Technology by Dr. Masoud Seddighin.

Setup

Pre-requisites

1. Make sure you have Go installed on your system. You can download it from here.
2. Make sure you have a Telegram bot token. You can get one by talking to BotFather.

Steps

1. Create a config.yaml file in the config directory. You can use the config.example.yaml file as a template. Fill in the bot_token field with your bot token. Also fill the admin_usernames field with the usernames of the users you want to be able to start an auction.
2. Create a log directory in the root of the project.
3. Resolve the dependencies by running go mod tidy.
4. Run the bot using go run cmd/main.go.

Room for Improvement

[ ]: Add ascending auction

Contact

If you have any questions or suggestions, feel free to contact me at absoltani02@gmail.com.