NUS Dabao

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  Start the bot

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  Pick a canteen and name your poll

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  Choose a stall

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  Select your food item

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  Your order is placed!

Inspiration

There are many instances of an open invite for takeaway orders in our telegram group chats. However, the process of collating orders can be very messy and disorganised where everyone starts to copy and paste the previous message and adding their order in to the list. Hence, the aim of NUS Dabao telegram bot is to streamline the process of taking orders.

What it does

NUS Dabao is a telegram bot that allows users to create a poll and send the poll to group chats to collate takeaway orders for canteens in NUS. Users will first have to choose a canteen where they would like to collate orders from. The menu of the different stalls from the chosen canteen will show up and users can select the food item that they want to order.

How we built it

Python and telegram

Challenges we ran into

Figuring out how to use the telegram API

Accomplishments that we're proud of

First time building a telegram bot in a short duration

What we learned

Building a telegram bot with the telegram API. Ideating is an essential step to plan what features needs to be implemented

What's next for NUS Dabao

Build a database for the bot

Built With

• python
• telegram