ShareYourFood is a Telegram bot. You can reach out to the bot at https://t.me/ShareYourFoodBot.

Every year approximately 1.3 billion tonnes of food gets lost or wasted [Source].

As such I have created this bot in an attempt to lower this large amount of food waste.

If you have any food / edibles that you are going to throw out anyways, how about sharing it with others? Maybe there is someone who needs it more than you.

This is how it goes:

1. You tell ShareYourFoodBot that you have some food to share.
2. ShareYourFoodBot accepts your request and saves a few of your details in it's database.
3. Now, if someone is need of food, he / she will raise a request to ShareYourFoodBot. Someone who is in need of food can be of two categories:
   • The requestor himself is in need of food.
   • The requestor is near someone (like homeless people) who is need of food.
4. ShareYourFoodBot will search if anyone near the requestor is sharing food.
5. If it finds someone, it will share the details of those people with the requestor so that, he / she can be contacted.

• /share

  

• /request

  

The following data will be saved in ShareYourFoodBot's database. This data is saved FOR A MAXIMUM OF 5 HOURS (considering the fact that food items may become stale after 5 hours):

1. Your fullname (Publicly available through Telegram API when a user contacts the bot).
2. Your username (Publicly available through Telegram API when a user contacts the bot).
3. Your chat id (Publicly available through Telegram API when a user contacts the bot)
4. Your message id. (Publicly available through Telegram API when a user contacts the bot).
5. Your location (This is requested from user because the bot will try to find people near you. It doesn't really make sense if a user is sharing food from New York and another user is requesting food from Texas).

This is a free and open-source bot released under MIT License.