RSS to Telegram bot

A self-hosted telegram python bot that dumps posts from RSS feeds to a telegram chat. This script was created because all the third party services were unreliable.

Installation

On Local Machine (WSL - Ubuntu)

• Install Python 3.8.x

• Clone this repo:

git clone https://github.com/usmanmughalji/rss-feed-bot
cd rss-feed-bot

• Install dependencies for running setup scripts:

pip3 install -r requirements.txt

Setting up config file

cp config_sample.env config.env

Fill up rest of the fields. Meaning of each fields are discussed below:

• BOT_TOKEN : The telegram bot token that you get from @BotFather
• CHAT_ID : Add chat id, to get this chat id follow this method, add @GoogleIMGBot to the group, and send /id in the chat to get this value.
• DELAY : Default value is 60 seconds, you can change if you want.

Warning! Without chatID the bot wont be able to send automated messages and will only be able to respond to messages.

• Now Run Bot:

python3 telegramRSSbot.py

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Usage

send /help to the bot to get this message:

RSS to Telegram bot

After successfully adding a RSS link, the bot starts fetching the feed every 60 seconds. (This can be set) Titles are used to easily manage RSS feeds and need to contain only one word

commands:

/add title http://www(.)URL(.)com

/help Shows this text

/remove !Title! removes the RSS link

/list Lists all the titles and the RSS links from the DB

/test Inbuilt command that fetches a post from Reddits RSS.

The current chatId is: 20416xxxx

Updates

• Updated Requirements
• Added Heroku Support Properly

Known issues

If the bot is set to for example 5 minutes and one feed manages to get 2 new posts before the bot can check. Only the newest post will show up on telegram.

Credits, and Thanks to

• BoKKeR For His Wonderful Code (Original Repo)
• Usman Mughal Hmm