Devman-bot

Using this script, you can receive your lessons check notifications from dvmn.org.

The script uses following external API's:

Once, you run the script you'll receive notification messages to your telegram account. If something wrong happen, during invoking devman-api, bot will send you log-error messages.

How to install

Python3 should be already installed.

$ git clone https://github.com/nicko858/devman-bot.git
$ cd devman-bot
$ pip install -r requirements.txt

Create file .env in the script directory

Telegram instructions

You have to create telegram-channel, telegram-bot and get access-token. This arcticle will helps you to do all of this things. If everything is fine, you'll get telegram_bot_token, telegram_bot_url and telegram_channel_name. Next thing you should do is to get a proxy address (actual for Russian Federation). Check spys.one and get https proxy-address.

Add the following records to the .env-file:

TELEGRAM_BOT_TOKEN=Your bot token
TELEGRAM_BOT_URL=Your bot address
TELEGRAM_CHANNEL_NAME=Your telegram channel
HTTPS_PROXY=<proxy address from spys.one>

How to run

    python devman_bot.py

How to deploy

Fork current repository
Make sure, that you have Procfile in the repo root and it has this inside: bot: python3 devman_bot.py
Create account on heroku or use existing
Create new app and connect your github-account
After successfull github connection, go to deploy section
Choose Manual deploy and click Deploy Branch(by default -from master)
After successfull deploy, go to Settings and create environment variables in Config Vars section (like .env-file from Telegram instructions)
Go to Resources and make sure that you have bot: python3 devman_bot.py in Free Dynos - section
Run bot by clicking pencil-icon

Project Goals

The code is written for educational purposes on online-course for web-developers dvmn.org.