hackernewsbot

Telegram bot that posts new hot stories from Hacker News to telegram channel

Backend

It loads top stories every 10 minutes and posts any story that reached 100+ score

Bot uses Telegram Bot API to post messages to the telegram channel with sendMessage request

Bot used bit.ly and goo.gl for url shortening, but now it uses internal shortener

Clone this project
Run pip install -r requirements.txt -t lib/ to install dependencies
Download and install Google Cloud SDK
Register your app in Google Cloud console
Register your bot via BotFather
Rename sample_app.yaml to app.yaml and
- replace yourappid with your App engine app id
- replace YOUR_TELEGRAM_BOT_TOKEN with your bot token
Possibly you'll want to create your own channel and your bot as an admin. Also change @hacker_news_feed in database.py to your channel id
Run gcloud app deploy app.yaml --project [YOUR_PROJECT_NAME] in the project folder
Run gcloud app deploy cron.yaml --project [YOUR_PROJECT_NAME] in the project folder

To run server locally you can use dev_appserver.py:

dev_appserver.py .