Website Subscribe Bot

A telegram bot for monitoring updates to a particular website, and send updates to subscribers based in a FIFO queue.

This is implemented to monitor Aachen immigration office.

Installation

1. Create and setup python environment

   python3 -m venv .venv
   source .venv/bin/activate # Windows: source .venv/Scripts/activate
   pip install -r requirements.txt
   

2. Get your bot's api token from botfather and save it to .env file.

   echo "BOT_TOKEN=Your Token Here" > .env
   echo "ADMIN_PASSWORD=YourAdminPassword" >> .env # This is used to authenticate admin commands
   

3. Run the bot

   ./run.sh