This code allows you to form an RSS feed when you post messages to channel via bot. It works fine for me, but there can be some bugs.
In theory, devs can use this to form RSS/Atom feed for their channels to make content available outside Telegram.
- Python 3;
- pyTelegramBotAPI lib to work with Telegram Bot API;
- pytz library to work with timezones;
- feedgen library to create RSS/Atom feeds;
- CherryPy Micro web-server (to use webhooks);
- sqlite3;
- (optional) nginx as reverse-proxy
To install feedgen you need 1024+ megabytes of RAM, also you need to install some libs first:
sudo apt-get install sqlite3 libxml2 libxml2-dev libxslt1.1 libxslt1.1-dev
pip3 install feedgen pytz pytelegrambotapi cherrypy
sqlite3 storage.db < create_db.sql
- Rename
config_example.pytoconfig.py(Important) - Fill in the necessary fields in
config.pyfile - Launch bot using webhooks with self-signed certificate (
sample_custom_post.py) or check sample auto-posting bot (sample_hourly.py)
Check that your bot is set as admin in your channel!
If using custom poster, open chat with your bot and write a message to it. You should see that message in both channel and RSS/Atom feed.
- It's still unknown, why some RSS Parsers take too long to find updates in feed (though QuiteRSS for Windows finds updates instantly)
- In this version of code, you can only remove one entry from feed at a time. No way to also remove message from channel, only manually with
/remlastcommand (Restriction of Bot API). - Only text messages are supported.
parse_modeargument is set to "HTML" by default (to be compatible with real RSS readers). You can disable it in code or change to "Markdown".
The code provided here should be self-explanatory, but in case you get stuck somewhere, feel free to e-mail me: groosha @ protonmail.com (remove extra spaces)