A python script that connects an https://dash.import.io/ extractor with a telegram bot and posts messages.
You'll need some data that you want to share and push, a telegram bot and possibly one or many channels that you want to broadcast to.
Install requests.
We used https://dash.import.io/ to quickly and easily create an extractor for the website that holds our desired data. As a result, you'll be able to send GET-Requests to a REST-API made available by import.io. They also offer an RSS-Feed in case you want to skip telegram. Make sure that they have the correct data by testing the REST-call.
Once you're done, you should have:
- EXTRACTOR_ID
- EXTRACTOR_API_KEY
- (EXTRACTOR_RSS - optional)
The telegram team made it ridiculously easy to create a new telegram bot. Simply follow these instructions.
Once you're done, you should have:
- BOT_ID
- BOT_TOKEN
Create one or multiple Broadcast Channels on telegram (find out how).
You chould get:
- [BROADCAST_ID]
// a list of broadcast ids
Change the file to fit your needs. Run it to get the data and send it. Trigger it by RSS or manually. (See next part for more information.)
python main.py "EXTRACTOR_ID" "EXTRACTOR_API_KEY" "BOT_ID BOT_TOKEN" "TARGET_URL"Install this lib and use it as described in this example to trigger script whenever there is an rss update on the RSS Feed of your import.io extractor. (You can define how often there should be an update in the import.io settings.
Explanation to follow soon.