Amazon Offers Telegram Bot

This project is a Telegram Bot connected to a Telegram Channel that check Amazon offers and send them to your Channel.

Requirements

SCRIPT INSTALLER

Now you can run the script.sh file from the terminal to install all dependencies, included paapi5 package. Open a terminal in the working directory, then type bash script.sh and launch the command.

MANUAL INSTALLER

If you used the `script.sh` method you can skip the following step.

In order to use this bot you must done following step:

Create a telegram bot (https://core.telegram.org/bots)
Create an Amazon Affiliation (https://programma-affiliazione.amazon.it/)
Put all of your keys (Amazon and Telegram API Keys) in the code, we are going to define how below
Install packages, you can install them with pip:
- python-telegram-bot
- itertools
- datetime
Install Amazon paapi5 package:
- open your terminal
- go to /paapi5-python-sdk
- launch the command: python setup.py or python3 setup.py

Project Structure

The project is organized like follow:

bot.py
- Contains the bot start code HERE YOU MUST PUT YOUR TELEGRAM API KEYS AND PARAMETERS
amazon_api.py
- Contain amazon api function to search products, HERE YOU MUST PUT YOUR AMAZON API KEYS AND PARAMETERS
response_parser.py
- Util functions that parse amazon api response
create_messages
- message creation functions

How it works

The bot is running in a while loop, you can define your favorite parameters for:

Hours of activity
Pause time between messages
Amazon Search Category
Search Keywords

The bot is active if the time is between MIN_HOUR and MAX_HOUR (you can deactivate it during the night for example) , you can define these parameters in the code.

The do a break for defined PAUSE_MINUTE after sent a message.

You can also edit message body in create_messages.py.

The bot make all http requests to Amazon API at start, save a list of all results in RAM and as long as there are items in results list it:

SEND OFFER MESSAGE
PAUSE FOR PAUSE_MINUTES
SEND ANOTHER MESSAGE

for all the activity time. When all results have been sent, it restart his loop.

Usage

After cloning the repository, define all parameters in the code, install all packages and then start bot with command: python bot.py or python3 bot.py

Message Structure

This is a generated telegram channel message example, you can edit the message structure on create_messages.py code.

Author

Samir Salman

cusci/AmazonOffers-TelegramBot