News Clipping Bot

About

A bot that collects information of interest and sends it through Telegram Messenger.
For now the use is approved in GNU/Linux Ubuntu.

Install and run

• You can deploy to a vps or on premise VM.
• Python 3.8 is recommended.
• Clone repository

git clone https://github.com/postcristiano/news-clipping-bot && cd news-clipping-bot

• After download:
  • Put the API token in ./core/settings/token.txt
  • Customize your news sources with twitter usernames in ./core/settings/sources.txt
• Set run perm and run install.sh file.

• Don't forget to keep the server time in your timezone. E.g.:

sudo timedatectl set-timezone Europe/Lisbon

Features

• To uninstall, run install.sh and select the option to uninstall.
• After installed the Bot will run as clippingbot.service. You can check:

sudo systemctl enable clippingbot.service

Usage

• On first use send start message to your bot.
• Send news message to your bot.

License

GPL v3

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2022 April 16 - version 0.1