How to Install and Run the Crypto-Telegram Bot

{ 👋 } All,

I recently created a cryptocurrency Telegram BOT which allows you to fetch and any coin listed on CoinGecko and it will reply with all of the insightful data that you need. This article aims to show you how to easily install and configure the BOT.

Note: I have used SSH and a Raspberry Pi for this example, steps on other devices locally or otherwise should be fairly similar.

Step 1:

Clone the crypto-telegrambot repository:

git clone https://github.com/Zidious/crypto-telegrambot

Terminal showing the cloned telegram-bot repository — Cloning the crypto-telegrambot

Step 2:

Navigate to the repository and run the following commands:

npm install

Then:

npm run build

A terminal showing the completed npm install and npm build commands — Installing and building the bot

Step 3:

Set the CRYPTO_COFFEE_BOT_TOKEN environment variable with your Telegram BOT token.

Note: you can obtain your BOT token from BotFather.

export CRYPTO_COFFEE_BOT_TOKEN=bot123456:ABC-DEF1234ghIkl-zyx57W2v1u123ew11

Terminal showing set enviroment variable — Setting the CRYPTO_COFFEE_BOT_TOKEN ENV variable

Final step:

That's it! Run the BOT!

npm start

Tip for SSH and Raspberry Pi: adding ‘&’ at the end of your NPM command will start the BOT process in the background of your current SSH Raspberry Pi session, allowing you to do other things. To exit the session and keep the BOT running do the following; CTRL+A and to disconnect the session CTRL+D.

The BOT in action:

The price command: