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Make your own reddit channel on telegram

Prerequisites

• A reddit bot
• A telegram bot
• A telegram channel (you can just use your username in place of a channel)
• (optional) A hosting platform like heroku

Requirements

Install requirements using

pip install -r requirements.txt

How to setup

• Create a reddit API Token here. Note down the client id under the app name, and client secret in the 'edit' option.
• Create a telegram bot using @botfather. Note down the HTTP API Token.
• Create a channel in telegram. Note the @username of the channel.
• Add all the tokens into settings.py
• Add all the subreddits you want into settings.py
• Run the app. python app.py

How to host

Heroku

• Create a new app on heroku
• Deploy using git git push heroku master
• Add a heroku scheduler heroku addons:create scheduler:standard
• Open the scheduler dashboard heroku addons:open scheduler
• Add a new job.

Dyno Size : Free
Frequency : Daily
command : python app.py

• Enjoy your private reddit channel

[ Currently the code is designed to fetch 'top 5 posts of the day with upvotes > 10' ]