# Overview

[Relevant Blog Post](https://alistairmichael.com/projects/markov-bot.html)

This is a markov-chain text generation bot for telegram. Add it to a group and
it will listen to the conversation to build its markov chain databse. It will
reply periodically to a random message using its last word as the seed. It looks
like a reallly basic form of keyboard autocomplete. 

It can also import plain-text files. This is useful if you want it to loosely
imitate the prose of a specific author. 


Theoretically it should support an arbitrary-order markov chain using the same
sqlite3 database file. 

```sh
# import to a 2nd order markov chain stored in `table_name` on `markov.db3`
$ ./bot -i importfile.txt -n "table_name" -o 2 -d "markov.db3"
# run bot using markov chain stored in `other_table_name` on `markov.db3`
$ ./bot -n "other_table_name" -o 3 -d "markov.db3"
```

## Building on Fedora

Boost is static linked so it can be deplyed to a server without installing
boost.

```

sudo dnf install boost-devel sqlitecpp-devel openssl-devel boost-static
cmake .
make

```