Celo Alert Bot

Celo Alert Bot will send an alert about a new proposal in the network. We are working on adding support for alerts that track the proposal through each step of the Celo governance process.

Please provide constructive feedback and alert requests here.

Install Prerequisites

• Go 13.x+

We need to install influxDB next

$ cd $HOME
$ wget -qO- https://repos.influxdata.com/influxdb.key | sudo apt-key add -
$ source /etc/lsb-release
$ echo "deb https://repos.influxdata.com/${DISTRIB_ID,,} ${DISTRIB_CODENAME} stable" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/influxdb.list

Start influxDB

$ sudo -S apt-get update && sudo apt-get install influxdb
$ sudo -S service influxdb start

Create database:

$ influx -precision rfc3339
> CREATE DATABASE celo

> SHOW DATABASES

Install and configure the Celo Alert Bot

Get the code and run it after editing the config file

go get github.com/chainflow/celo
cd go/src/github.com/chainflow/celo

go get .

Edit the config:

mv example.config.toml config.toml
nano config.toml

update tg_chat_id, tg_bot_token (Give your telegram chat id and bot token, to which you want to get the alerts)

Start the bot using screen

Screen -S celobot
go run main.go

To detach the screen (Ctrl+A and then D)
To attach the screen from next time : screen -rd celobot