FoodHeroBot

Food Hero

A Telegram bot for users to share their leftover food.

Food wastage has been an increasing worrying issue over the years, and this bot aims to reduce it by creating a platform for sharing spare or leftover food. This bot was created within 24 hours for the Lifehack 2022 hackathon. You may find out more about our submission here: https://devpost.com/software/kalilinux

Dependencies

1. python-telegram-bot
2. googlemaps
3. requests

How to Deploy

1. Install all dependencies using pip install [packagename]
2. Install Python 3
3. Clone this repository to by running git clone https://github.com/oeggy/TelegramBot
4. Get inside the repository folder by running cd TelegramBot
5. Finally, run the program using python3 Lifehack.py

How to Use

1. Run /start
2. To share your leftover food, run /postfood
3. To retrieve food someone else has posted, run /getfood
4. To see what food you have posted and to remove expired listings, run /myposts
5. To view all other commands, run /help