daseyb / residence-telegram-bot

Residence Telegram Bot

This bot pulls listings from wg-gesucht.de, filters them and posts new entries to Telegram. Requires Node.js.

Be the first one to apply for your favourite apartment!

This code is in a very early stage, but already very useful.

Usage

• /start starts the bot
• /stop stops the bot

Deploy

You have to deploy this bot by yourself, since the filter options are the same for all users.

• Clone this repository on your server.
• Run npm install.
• Copy config.json.sample to config.json.
• Talk to @BotFather to get a bot token.
• Add the token to config.json.
• Adjust the filter in the code, look out for var filter = { ... }
• Start with node index.js (you should do this inside a screen). That's it!

To Do

• Implement command to set up filters (they are hardcoded at the moment).
• Keep state across restarts.
• Doesn't scale well...

Contributing and License

This code is licensed under the AGPL license.

I welcome any contribution that makes this hacky code better, adds new features and/or more data sources.