greed

A customizable, multilanguage Telegram shop bot with Telegram Payments support!

Requirements

• Python 3.6 (or higher)
• The packages specified in requirements.txt (install with pip install -r requirements.txt)
• An Internet connection
• A Telegram bot token (obtainable at @Botfather)
• A payment provider token (obtainable by connecting a provider with your bot)
• Optional: a sentry.io token

Installation

1. Download the project files through git clone https://github.com/Steffo99/greed.git (recommended) or this link.
2. Install the project requirements with pip install -r requirements.txt
3. Optional: run pip install coloredlogs to have colored logging output.
4. Run python -OO core.py to generate the configuration file.
5. Open the config folder and edit the config.ini file following the contained instructions.
   Ensure the is_template field is set to no.
6. Run python -OO database.py to generate the database tables.
7. Optional: customize the strings.py file
8. Run python -OO core.py again to run the bot.
9. Open Telegram, and send a /start command to your bot to be promoted to administrator.

Usage

All the bot features are available through Telegram. As the administrator, you can add new products, check the placed orders, create new transactions and generate .csv log files.
Users will be able to add credit to their wallet, place orders and contact you in case they require assistance.

Updating

Through git

If you downloaded greed through git, you can update it by running:

git stash
git pull
git stash pop

By redownloading the zip file

If you downloaded greed through the zip archive, you can update it by redownloading the latest version and by moving your config.ini and database.sqlite (if applicable) files to the new folder.

Documentation

greed currently does not have a documentation page, but you can try to read the paper (in Italian) I wrote for my final Scuola Superiore exam about it.

Help!

If you find a bug, have an idea for a new feature or just require help with greed, please post an issue on GitHub, or, if GitHub is blocked in your country, join our Telegram group and send a message there.

Forks

Please note that @Steffo99, the developer of greed, does not endorse any of these forks.

Bitcoin - Blockonomics

DarrenWestwood is currently maintaining a greed fork with Bitcoin support through Blockonomics.