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+# Telegram Group Chat Logger
+
+This is a bot that logs public Group Chats to an SQL Database.
+
+## Installation
+
+ - Required: Python 3.X , PostgreSQL, Telegram Bot
+ - Clone this repo
+ - `pip install requirements.txt`
+ 
+## Bot/Group Setup
+
+ - Create a group
+ - Add your bot to the group like so: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/37338101/how-to-add-a-bot-to-a-telegram-group
+ - your bot only sees commands. Use `/setprivacy` with `@BotFather` in order to allow it to see all messages in a group.
+ 
+## Running the bot
+
+ - Create a Database, eg. `origindb`
+ - Store your Telegram Bot Token in an environment variable, eg. `echo $ORIGINTOKEN`
+ - Add your DB credentials to `model.py` eg. `engine = create_engine('postgresql://postgres:<password>@localhost:5432/<databasename>')`
+ - Run: `python model.py` to setup the DB tables, etc.
+ - Run: `python bot.py` to start logger
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+# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
+
+"""Group Chat Logger
+
+This bot is a modified version of the echo2 bot found here: 
+https://github.com/python-telegram-bot/python-telegram-bot/blob/master/examples/echobot2.py
+
+This bot logs all messages sent in a Telegram Group to a database.
+
+"""
+
+from telegram.ext import Updater, CommandHandler, MessageHandler, Filters
+import logging
+import os
+from model import User, Message, session
+
+# Enable logging
+logging.basicConfig(format='%(asctime)s - %(name)s - %(levelname)s - %(message)s',
+                    level=logging.INFO)
+
+logger = logging.getLogger(__name__)
+
+# Define a few command handlers. These usually take the two arguments bot and
+# update. Error handlers also receive the raised TelegramError object in error.
+
+def logger(bot, update):
+    """Primary Logger. Handles incoming bot messages and saves them to DB"""
+    
+    user = update.message.from_user
+
+    if id_exists(user.id) == True:
+        log_message(user.id, update.message.text)
+        print("message logged")
+    
+    else:
+        add_user_success = add_user(user.id, user.first_name, user.last_name, user.username)
+        
+        if add_user_success == True:
+            log_message(user.id, update.message.text)
+            print("user added & message logged")
+        else:
+            print("Something went wrong adding the user!")
+    
+# DB queries
+
+def id_exists(id_value):
+    s = session()
+    bool_set = False
+    for id1 in s.query(User.id).filter_by(id=id_value):
+        if id1:
+            bool_set = True
+            
+    s.close()
+    
+    return bool_set
+
+def log_message(user_id, user_message):
+
+    try:
+        s = session()
+        msg1 = Message(user_id=user_id,message=user_message)
+        s.add(msg1)
+        s.commit()
+        s.close()
+    
+    except Exception as e:
+        print(e)
+    
+def add_user(user_id, first_name, last_name, username):
+    try:
+        s = session()
+        bool_set = False
+        user = User(id=user_id, first_name = first_name, last_name = last_name, username = username)
+        s.add(user)
+        s.commit()
+        s.close()
+        
+        if id_exists(user_id) == True:
+            bool_set = True
+        
+        return bool_set
+        
+    except Exception as e:
+        print(e)
+    
+
+def error(bot, update, error):
+    """Log Errors caused by Updates."""
+    logger.warning('Update "%s" caused error "%s"', update, error)
+
+
+def main():
+    """Start the bot."""
+    # Create the EventHandler and pass it your bot's token.
+    updater = Updater(os.environ["ORIGINTOKEN"])
+
+    # Get the dispatcher to register handlers
+    dp = updater.dispatcher
+
+    # on different commands - answer in Telegram
+
+    # on noncommand i.e message - echo the message on Telegram
+    dp.add_handler(MessageHandler(Filters.text, logger))
+    
+    # dp.add_handler(MessageHandler(Filters.status_update, status))
+
+    # log all errors
+    dp.add_error_handler(error)
+
+    # Start the Bot
+    updater.start_polling()
+
+    # Run the bot until you press Ctrl-C or the process receives SIGINT,
+    # SIGTERM or SIGABRT. This should be used most of the time, since
+    # start_polling() is non-blocking and will stop the bot gracefully.
+    updater.idle()
+
+
+if __name__ == '__main__':
+    main()
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+from sqlalchemy import Column, DateTime, String, Integer, ForeignKey, func
+from sqlalchemy.orm import relationship, backref
+from sqlalchemy.ext.declarative import declarative_base
+
+'''
+This model has been referenced from: https://www.pythoncentral.io/sqlalchemy-orm-examples/
+''' 
+ 
+Base = declarative_base()
+ 
+ 
+class User(Base):
+    __tablename__ = 'users'
+    id = Column(Integer, primary_key=True)
+    first_name = Column(String)
+    last_name = Column(String)
+    username = Column(String)
+ 
+ 
+class Message(Base):
+    __tablename__ = 'messages'
+    id = Column(Integer, primary_key=True)
+    user_id = Column(Integer, ForeignKey('users.id'), nullable=False)
+    message = Column(String)
+    # Use default=func.now() to set the default hiring time
+    # of an Employee to be the current time when an
+    # Employee record was created
+    time = Column(DateTime, default=func.now())
+ 
+ 
+from sqlalchemy import create_engine
+engine = create_engine('postgresql://postgres:<password>@localhost:5432/origindb')
+ 
+from sqlalchemy.orm import sessionmaker
+session = sessionmaker()
+session.configure(bind=engine)
+Base.metadata.create_all(engine)