CryptPad registration counter & results clearer

This is code for a Telegram bot which automatically counts the results of a CryptPad form every thursday 16:00(and on a /count command), and deletes it every thursday midnight. Very specific, I know.

Normally you'd use an API for this but I don't think cryptpad has an API so it uses selenium as a scraper which is not cursed at all

getting it up and running

setting up environment

If you would like the bot to be able to clear the entries:

1. create a bot cryptpad account especially for this bot
2. make it an owner of your cryptpad form
3. then open developer tools(usually F12) in your browser
4. go to the terminal and type JSON.stringify(localStorage) and copy its output and put it into credentials.json
5. BE CAREFUL WITH THIS DATA. This is essentially a key for your entire cryptpad drive. Which is why you should NEVER use your personal account for this.

If you use docker, put the following fields in an .env file:

CP_URL=<the URL of the results of your cryptpad form>
TG_TOKEN=<the token of your telegram bot>
TG_CHANNEL_ID=<the channel ID of the channel where you want to broadcast the registration count message>

If you run locally, you have to export them manually youself. :(

Running locally

You need to have node with at least version 18, best to use nvm(link)

nvm use 18
npm run dev

Running with docker

docker-compose up

More configuration

In lib.ts you can find more configuration, such as the column to which get the sum of registrations for. In bot.ts you can specify when to send a registration count to the telegram channel and when to delete.

By default, it will use the first input field as the field to sum up.

Also your environment would need a PWD field(which is normal for any setup)