boxdox / reddit-to-telegram-channel

a simple script to automate posting from reddit to telegram

Reddit to Telegram Channel

This bot script can select a random top of the day post from reddit and send it to a telegram channel via a bot, while saving the url of post into a file, so as to not post the same image twice.

Requirements

praw
python-dotenv

Available Methods

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Get Top Posts

Returns an array of top posts based on time and limit entered (from PRAW) get_top_posts(time, limit)

Parameters:

• time: Can be one of: all, day, hour, month, week, year (default: day)
• limit: Number of posts to fetch (default: 10)

Select a post

Returns a single post. It first calls get_top_posts, then calls get_list_of_posted_items and chooses a random element from difference of the two.

select_a_post(time, limit) Parameters: Same as above.

Post to Telegram

Sends the given post to the channel. get_top_posts(post, caption)

Parameters:

• post: URL of the image.
• caption: Caption for the post (Optional)

How to?

1. Git clone this repo
2. Rename .env.example to .env
3. Replace all data in .env with your own
4. Create a virtual environment (optional)
5. Run pip install -r requirements.txt
6. Create a new file named bot.py with the following contents:

from reddit_to_telegram import Reddit_to_telegram

x = Reddit_To_Telegram(user_agent, subreddit, channel_name)

selected_post = x.select_a_post()

x.post_to_telegram(selected_post)

TODO

• Enclose into a function for easier calling Converted to class
• Generalize this for any subreddit
• Allow calling multiple subreddits
• Generate a dockerfile (update: testing this.)

Licence

MIT 2020