telegram-xkcd_bot

A telegram chat bot to get you the xkcd comic

What is this?

It is a chat bot. You can go to https://web.telegram.org/#/im?p=@xkcd_bot and start a chat. You can request for latest xkcd comic or a random one. If you know the number of your favorite xkcd comics then you can ask for that as well.

Components

• image_fetch.py: Run this in cron. This will check if a new image is published or not. Note that I am using etcd to store parsed rss feed data. This may seems like an overkill at the moment but idea is to add more features and I think etcd will be handy in that case
• xkcd.py: A simple flask app which listens on 5001 for the incoming webhooks from telegram and send image to anyone pings the bot.

To Do

• get random xkcd
• get numbered xkcd
• add subscription for users who are interested in getting comics delivered on the chat.