batagoda

Batagoda

A profanity-laden Telegram bot with two distinct engines.

Uses the amazing Telebot framework for the bot integration stuff.

Setting Up

• Clone repo
• Copy .env.example to .env and set the values (get Telegram token from BotFather)
• go run . 🤷🏽‍♀️

Why Batagoda?

The name is a throwback to the original Slack bot Batagoda (may he RIP), written by Viren Dias and Kaveen Rodrigo at YAMU circa 2016/17.

Engines

• Eliza: Code copied wholesale from goeliza and translated to Sinhala via Google Translate, with none of the change in sentence structures etc. to make it sound less awkward in Sinhala.

• BatagodaX: Written from scratch. Less sophisticated than Eliza but seems to work okay. Has better tests!

License

Kenny Song's original code does not have a license, so I don't know how appropriate this is, but I'm releasing my modifications and additions under the MIT license.