welel / breaking-news-bot

The Telegram bot provides breaking news headlines along with a URL to the source.

Breaking News Telegram Bot

The main feature of this bot is to deliver latest news headlines related to technology along with a URL to the source to keep users up to date with the latest news and developments in the tech industry. The bot is designed to have only one command, /start, which initiates the bot and sends a short description of its capabilities. Any message sent to the bot will receive a notification that the bot only sends news and does not receive messages.

Requirements

• Linux
• Python v3.10
• aiogram v3
• dotenv v1 - for the bot configuration
• newsapi-python - for using NewsAPI
• aiosqlite - for keeping users ids
• APScheduler v3.1 - for scheduling tasks

Installation

To get started with this bot, follow these steps:

• Clone this repository to your local machine.

  $ git clone [source]
  

• Create a virtual environment, activate it and install required dependencies.

  $ python3.10 -m venv env
  $ source env/bin/activate
  $ pip install -r requirements/local.txt
  

• Create a new bot on Telegram by talking to the BotFather, and obtain the API token.

• Get an API key on the NewsAPI website.

• Rename the file .env.dist to .env and replace the placeholders with required data.

• Run the bot using python bot.py.