heise-online-news-telegram-bot

This is the inofficial heise online telegram bot.

Installation

This is how to install and run the software afterwards

Install the requirements

pip3 install -r requirements.txt

Copy configuration

cd /opt/scripts/heise-online-news-telegram-bot/
cp heise_online_bot/config/config.ini.example heise_online_bot/config/config.ini
cp heise_online_bot/config/news.ini.example heise_online_bot/config/news.ini
cp heise_online_bot/config/users.ini.example heise_online_bot/config/users.ini

Run the bot as systemd service

Edit the configuration file: sudo vim /etc/systemd/system/heise-online-bot.service

Paste this and change the paths for your installation:

[Unit]
Description=Heise Online News Telegram Bot
Wants=network-online.target
After=syslog.target time-sync.target network.target network-online.target

[Service]
ExecStart=/usr/bin/python3 heise_online_bot/
WorkingDirectory=/opt/scripts/heise-online-news-telegram-bot/
Restart=always
RestartSec=10
StandardOutput=none
StandardError=none
SyslogIdentifier=heise-online-bot
User=root
Group=root

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target

Reload Daemon: systemctl daemon-reload

Enable autostart of daemon: systemctl enable heise-online-bot

Start daemon: systemctl start heise-online-bot

TO DO's

error handling improvements
logging improvements - more logging messages for all log levels
testing using unit tests
release planning

DEV Environment

To create a development environment you have to execute the following command after cloning the repository:

python3 setup.py develop