telegram_bot

Track things and get notified via Telegram.

How to use

Get your secrets ready

1. Create a new bot with @BotFather in Telegram
2. Get an auth token for the bot in format of 123456:ABC-DEF1234ghIkl-zyx57W2v1u123ew11 and save it in secrets/token
3. Get your user id from @userinfobot in format of 123456789 and save it in secrets/user_id

ℹ️ Note: My secrets are encrypted with Strongbox (https://github.com/uw-labs/strongbox)

Create a python venv and install the required packages

1. python -m venv venv
2. source venv/bin/activate
3. pip install -r requirements.txt --upgrade pip

Enabling cron service in WSL (If using Windows)

1. Add this line to /etc/sudoers
%sudo ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD: /usr/sbin/service cron start
2. Go to Windows Start-up (Win + R and shell:startup)
3. Create a .bat file with the following command
   wsl sudo service cron start

Automating runs with cron

1. Check run.sh for scripts that will get executed
2. Manually start cron service if it's not running
3. Add cron jobs to execute scripts e.g.:

# Telegram Bot:
0 * * * * cd /home/me/telegram_bot/ && ./run.sh

The script will loop through all directories specified in the run.sh and execute all .py scripts inside these directories. Remove directories you don't need from run.sh or rename python scripts if you want to temporarily disable them.