Snap Telegram Bot

A simple telegram bot to take a picture from a connected web cam.

The bot uses big Emgu.CV lib to work with the web cam, let me know if you know better way.

Setup Instructions

1. Obtain a telegram bot auth token.
   1. Create a telegram bot using @BotFather.
2. Download the latest release or compile the project locally.
3. Configure your bot.
   1. Adjust appsettings.json file with auth token.
   2. Add your telegram user id to Security -> Allowed Users array.
      1. You can send /start command to the bot to get your user id.
4. Run your bot (SnapTgBot.exe), send /takepicture to take a picture.

Building

Publish single file: dotnet publish -r win-x64 -p:PublishSingleFile=true --self-contained true