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rss-to-telegram

RSS to Telegram reposter bot

This is a bot to repost items from an RSS feed to a Telegram channel.

Prerequisites

1. Create a new bot via BotFather and obtain its token.
2. Get the channel id of the channel you want the bot to post to (@getidsbot can help you with this).
3. Add your bot to the channel as administrator (permission to create posts is necessary).

Installation and running

This bot is designed to be run with cron or some other scheduler to regularly retrieve new feed items and post them.

The bot uses Python 3.5+. Requirements are listed in the Pipfile.

1. Clone this repo.
2. Run pipenv install in the project directory.
3. Copy config.example.py to config.py.
4. Populate the config.py with your bot token, channel id and a link to RSS feed.