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Make your own reddit channel on telegram
Prerequisites
- A reddit bot
- A telegram bot
- A telegram channel (you can just use your username in place of a channel)
- (optional) A hosting platform like heroku
Requirements
Install requirements using
pip install -r requirements.txt
How to setup
- Create a reddit API Token here. Note down the client id under the app name, and client secret in the 'edit' option.
- Create a telegram bot using @botfather. Note down the HTTP API Token.
- Create a channel in telegram. Note the @username of the channel.
- Add all the tokens into .env file and heroku configs
CID - reddit client id
CSECRET - reddit client secret
MONGODB_URI - mongodb url
TOKEN - telegram bot TOKEN
- Test the app.
python app.py
How to host
Heroku
- Create a new app on heroku
- Deploy using git
git push heroku master - Add a heroku scheduler
heroku addons:create scheduler:standard - Open the scheduler dashboard
heroku addons:open scheduler - Add a new job.
Dyno Size : Free
Frequency : Daily
command : python app.py
- Add a mongodb to heroku app
- mlab is a free mongodb service that has now moved to MongoDB Atlas, but you can use any service of your choice
- Create a collection named
subredditsand add your preferred subreddits according to subreddits.json template - The
idkey needs to be there. Mongo will create the_idkey by itself.
Updated version of this program will add a gui to add and delete subreddits.
- Enjoy your private reddit channel
Currently the code is designed to fetch 'top 5 posts of the day with upvotes > 10