IsItUP? Bot

A Telegram bot that verifies whether or not a website is up, tracks URLs and notifies when hosts have unreachable connections. https://t.me/Is_it_UPBot

Installation

1. Meet IsItUP? at telegram :D

or run your own bot

1. Clone the project
2. Go to your IsItUp directory

cd /path/to/IsItUP/

3. Set an enviroment variable named IS_IT_UP_TOKEN with your telegram token. Read this great article and learn how to do it properly. On bash:

export IS_IT_UP_TOKEN=your_telegram_token

4. (Optional) Setup Firebase if you want to enable the track feature)

   • Create a Firebase project and download its credentials
   • Set environment variables named IS_IT_UP_FIREBASE_PRIVATE_KEY, IS_IT_UP_FIREBASE_CLIENT_EMAIL and IS_IT_UP_FIREBASE_DATABASE_URL with your firebase credentials (private key and client email are in the downloaded file)

   export [email protected]

5. Install node and npm

6. Download the dependencies

npm install

7. Run the script

npm start

Usage

It can be done with IsItUP? bot or your own bot:

Conversation

• Start a conversation with the bot
• Type:

/verify https://telegram.org

or just

https://telegram.org

to verify whether a website is available or not

Track (if enabled)

• You may track an URL by typing: // check step #4 for enabling tracking

/track https://telegram.org

• You may delete an URL from the track list by typing:

/track_delete

and then click at the URL you want to delete

• To list the URLs you are tracking:

/track_list

Every 5 minutes the bot will check the track list. The user will be notified when the status of an URL get changed(up->down, down->up).

Group

• You may as well invite the bot to a group

• Call it by name and tell the domain you want to watch

@Is_it_UPBot https://telegram.org

PS: telegram.org is a sample (of course :D), type whatever you need.

Contributing

1. Fork it!
2. Create your feature branch: git checkout -b my-new-feature
3. Commit your changes: git commit -am 'Add some feature'
4. Push to the branch: git push origin my-new-feature
5. Submit a pull request :D

Thanks

• isitup.org - for the concepts and ideas
• Node.js Telegram Bot API - for providing an easy way to create a telegram bot

License

MIT