Telegram crypto-currency price bot

Creating a telegram bot that provides a user with the price, in USD, of a given crypto currency.

On Telegram, the user interacts with a bot named "MW_CryptoPriceBot".

When typing in a crypto currency symbol (e.g. BTC for bitcoin), the bot will automatically return the current market price in USD.

The following components were used:

1. Telegram bot API
2. Python code
3. Coin Market Cap API for crypto prices
4. Code hosted on Digital Ocean

NB: Work is still in progress..

Current Features

Integrating two different APIs

"Listening" for new messages with long polling to reduce server load

Code hosted on Digital Ocean

Planned features

AWS integration / Webserver setup

Webhooks

Improve bot user-friendliness and functionality

Sample of chatbot response