The Daily Telegram

A simple Telegram RSS bot which notifies of updates in one of 2 per-feed modes:

• asap - Each new post is sent to the user as soon as the feed is updated (or at least, as soon as the bot polls it)
• digest - The bot polls the feed on a daily basis, and sends a summary of the day's new posts

Usage

The prompts provided by the bot should be self-explanatory. Nevertheless, a listing of the commands supported are provided below:

• /start - Start receiving from the Daily Telegram
• /add <url> <mode> - Subscribe to a feed
• /remove <url> - Unsubscribe from a feed
• /edit <url> <repr> - Change advanced settings for a feed
• /cancel - Cancel the current operation
• /settings - Show subscribed feeds
• /help - Get help on how to use this bot

Development

This bot is in a very early (but mostly workable) state. Pull requests are welcome!

The following environment variables are used by the bot:

• TELEGRAM_API_TOKEN - token for the Telegram Bot API
• LOG_RECIPIENTS (optional) - comma-separated list of Telegram chat IDs to which tracebacks will be sent
• ASAP_UPDATE_FREQ (optional) - update interval (in seconds) for feeds in asap mode (defaults to 5 minutes)
• BOT_DATA (optional) - directory from which pickle files will be read from/written to to persist user settings across bot restarts

The prompts may be customized or translated to a new language in the strings dict in localconfig.py.