MensaBot

MensaBot is a simple Python application designed to interact with a canteen's menu API and a Telegram bot. It fetches the daily menu from the canteen, checks for favorite dishes, and can send this information along with a custom poll to a specified Telegram chat.

Features

• Fetch daily menu from a specified API.
• Check for specified favorite dishes in the menu.
• Send the menu and favorite dishes information to a Telegram chat.
• Send a custom poll to a Telegram chat.

Requirements

• Python 3
• requests library

Installation

1. Ensure Python 3 is installed on your system. If not, you can download it from python.org.

2. Install packages using pip:

   pip install -r requirements.txt

Usage

1. lone the repository or download the mensa_bot.py script.

2. Run the script from the command line, providing the Telegram Bot API token and the chat ID as arguments:

   python mensa_bot.py <token> <chat_id>

Replace <TELEGRAM_BOT_TOKEN> with your Telegram Bot's API token and <TELEGRAM_CHAT_ID> with the ID of the chat where you want to send messages and polls.

Configuration

To customize the list of favorite dishes, modify the FAVORITE_DISHES list in the MensaBot class:

 FAVORITE_DISHES = ['Burger', 'Nuggets', 'Schnitzel', 'schnitzel', "burger"]

Contributing

Contributions to MensaBot are welcome! Please feel free to submit pull requests or open issues for bugs and feature requests.

License

This project is licensed under the MIT License - see the LICENSE file for details.