mensa-bot
A python script that connects an https://dash.import.io/ extractor with a telegram bot and posts messages.
Preparation
You'll need some data that you want to share and push, a telegram bot and possibly one or many channels that you want to broadcast to.
Libraries
Install requests.
Extractor
We used https://dash.import.io/ to quickly and easily create an extractor for the website that holds our desired data. As a result, you'll be able to send GET-Requests to a REST-API made available by import.io. They also offer an RSS-Feed in case you want to skip telegram. Make sure that they have the correct data by testing the REST-call.
Once you're done, you should have:
- EXTRACTOR_ID
- EXTRACTOR_API_KEY
- (EXTRACTOR_RSS - optional)
Telegram Bot
The telegram team made it ridiculously easy to create a new telegram bot. Simply follow these instructions.
Once you're done, you should have:
- BOT_ID
- BOT_TOKEN
Broadcasts
Create one or multiple Broadcast Channels on telegram (find out how).
You chould get:
- [BROADCAST_ID]
// a list of broadcast ids
Usage
Change the file to fit your needs. Run it to get the data and send it. Trigger it by RSS or manually. (See next part for more information.)
python main.py "EXTRACTOR_ID" "EXTRACTOR_API_KEY" "BOT_ID BOT_TOKEN" "TARGET_URL"Integration
RSS-triggered Terminal
Install this lib and use it as described in this example to trigger script whenever there is an rss update on the RSS Feed of your import.io extractor. (You can define how often there should be an update in the import.io settings.
Docker Cronejob
Explanation to follow soon.