stacker-news-top

Telegram bot that posts new hot stories from Stacker News to telegram channel

Telegram API

Bot uses Telegram Bot API to post messages to the telegram channel with sendMessage request

How to run your own stacker-news-top

• Clone this project
• Run pip3 install -r requirements.txt to install dependencies
• Create your bot via BotFather
• Rename conf/config-sample.yaml to conf/config.yaml and
  • set db_type to sqlite or redis
  • replace tg_chat_id with your channel/chat/group id
  • replace tg_token with your bot token
  • you can also change the db_name, redis_url, log_name and log_file
• Run python3 app.py in the project folder
• Use misc/stackernews.service to run the bot as a service

Stacker News Trending Channel

Link to join the channel: https://t.me/stackernewstop