Load bot info from environment

.gitignore

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 *~
 .vscode
 .env
+bot.session

README.md

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 This project uses [Pipenv](https://pipenv.readthedocs.io/en/latest/) to manage the dependencies, so install that first after cloning this repository.
 
 * Install dependencies - `pipenv install`
+* Create a Telegram bot (see Creating a Telegram Bot)
 * Enter the environment - `pipenv shell`
-* Start the server - `python server.py`
+* Start the server - `bash run.sh`
 
 The server will be running on `http://localhost:8080/`
 
+### Creating a Telegram bot
+
+1. Login to [my.telegram.org/apps](https://my.telegram.org/apps) and create a Web App - You will need the `api_id` and `api_hash`
+1. Message the [BotFather](https://t.me/BotFather) to get an `api_token`
+1. Copy `sample.env` to `.env` and fill in the details from the previous steps
+
 ## Available Requests
 
 Now that you have a running server, you can issue requests via a web browser, curl, wget, etc to the following endpoints:

run.sh

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+#!/bin/bash
+# Copyright 2020 - David Todd (c0de@c0defox.es)
+# Licensed under the MIT License (https://opensource.org/licenses/MIT)
+# Part of the Simple Bookmark Service
+
+source .env
+python server.py

sample.env

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+#!/bin/bash
+# Copyright 2020 - David Todd (c0de@c0defox.es)
+# Licensed under the MIT License (https://opensource.org/licenses/MIT)
+# Part of the Simple Bookmark Service
+
+export telethon_api_id=
+export telethon_api_hash=
+export telethon_token=