The joy of Telegram bots

Dec 30, 2020 ∞ · https://ix5.org/stream/e/uw41y50z

I inherited a simple Telegram bot from someone. The ease of programming these small things really makes programming fun again.

You don't need any more than plain python and the requests module to run it.

The SonyDevWorld bot

trawls the Latest updates and Open source archives pages from developer.sony.com
and posts found items
to the SMDW_downloads Telegram channel.

While working on the bot, I familiarized myself once again with deploying small isolated services with systemd and it's --user features. Pretty neat.

I also wrote a small ansible role to deploy the bot onto a server.

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