Easy and live status updates to a Telegram chat using a bot.
pip install git+https://github.com/SengerM/progressreporting
See the examples directory.
Quick example:
from progressreporting.TelegramProgressReporter import SafeTelegramReporter4Loops
from time import sleep
reporter = SafeTelegramReporter4Loops(
bot_token = "your_bot's_token",
chat_id = 'id_of_a_chat_where_your_bot_can_send_messages_to',
)
reporter.send_message('Send whatever message you like. 😃')
n_iterations = 999
with reporter.report_loop(n_iterations,'Give your loop a name',20):
for n in range(n_iterations):
sleep(60/n_iterations) # Here you would do some stuff, I will just sleep.
reporter.update(1) # This line tells the reporter that one iteration has been completed, and automatically sends the updates once per minute to the Telegram chat.
To create a Telegram bot you can follow any of the tutorials that are around.
To get the chat ID just talk to your bot, say "Hi", and then go to https://api.telegram.org/bot<YourBOTToken>/getUpdates. More info here.