Telegram is an open-source cloud-based mobile and desktop messaging app, similar to WhatsApp. Until we used Telegram, my fraternity used SnapChat. However, SnapChat has a group limit of 32, which at the time was soon to be less than the amount of members we had. As a solution, we switched our communications to Telegram, which does not have a group limit. Unlike SnapChat, Telegram does not delete unsaved messages after 24 hours, and so the chat very quickly became cluttered. To fix this, I made a bot for Telegram that logged each message every user sent to the group, and if it wasn't saved (in the context of Telegram, pinned), the messages would be deleted every 24 hours.
While a relatively simple premise, the implementation was slightly more challenging. For one, I had to familiarize myself with several Python Telegram APIs, as there were several options and some were better fitted for the task than others. After becoming familiar with the API, I then had to actually implement a solution to the task at hand.
Source code for the bot can be found on my GitHub.
Skills Applied: Python