notifications-bot 🤖

This is a Telegram bot that scrapes a website for specific items and sends a message to a specified chat when it finds matching items.

Getting Started

These instructions will get you a copy of the project up and running on your local machine for development and testing purposes.

Prerequisites

• Node.js
• Typescript
• yarn

Installing

1. Clone the repository:

   git clone https://github.com/namiranda/notifications-bot.git
   

2. Install the dependencies:

   cd notifications-bot
   yarn install
   

3. Create a .env file in the root directory of the project, and add your bot token and chat ID:

   TOKEN=your_bot_token
   CHAT_ID=your_chat_id
   

4. Start the bot:

   yarn start
   

Deployment

This bot can be deployed on any platform that supports Node.js, such as Heroku, AWS Elastic Beanstalk, or Vercel.

Built With

• Node.js
• node-telegram-bot-api - Telegram Bot API for NodeJS
• Puppeteer - Headless Chrome Node.js API