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