Welcome to 🌈📈 Bot!
This is an elegant piece of software that does 1 of 2 things at 4:30 EDT (GMT -4) every weekday. It either prints
To Do
- scale emoji's by percentage gain/loss
✅ - add > 10% caption text.
- use ^GSPC as the ticker symbol instead of SPY to offset inaccuracy of dividend payoffs
Files
Where does the bot send messages?
The bot sends messages using the bot_token to identify the bot and the bot_chatID to identify the chat the bot is in. Example:
'https://api.telegram.org/bot' + bot_token + '/sendMessage?chat_id=' + bot_chatID + '&parse_mode=Markdown&text=' + bot_message
Note: Unfortunately this entire program has to copied to an entirely new bot, because I don't want to give my auth_token away.
How does it send messages:
When you create a bot on Telegram, you be given a secure key use that as your bot_token above.
The bot_chatID comes when you add the bot to a Telegram group and type /start in the group.
Use this command https://api.telegram.org/bot<bot_token>/getUpdates
to find the chat: id in the returned JSON.
It'll look similar to this:
> "update_id": ,
"chat": **{**
"id": **<use this number>**,
"title": "",
"type": "group",
"all_members_are_administrators": **true**
Other Resources
Here's all the resources I used to build this bot.
Not I used my NAS's DSM Task Scheduler to run the script every weekday at 4:30pm. Python also has a library called Schedule that will keep the script running but execute the function at any given interval (listed below).
https://pypi.org/project/schedule/
Install Python packages: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/17309288/importerror-no-module-named-requests
Main article I started with: https://medium.com/@ManHay_Hong/how-to-create-a-telegram-bot-and-send-messages-with-python-4cf314d9fa3e
How to run script on AWS (should be free tier): https://aws.amazon.com/getting-started/hands-on/run-serverless-code/
How to schedule jobs on AWS lamba https://docs.aws.amazon.com/eventbridge/latest/userguide/run-lambda-schedule.html