Discount Telegram Bot

Overview

Do you ever buy something, only to find later that you had a discount for it?
This Python project is a Telegram bot that scrapes various sources for discounts and provides them to users on command.

The project consists of two main components:

• A discount updater script (main_discount_updater.py)
• The Telegram bot itself (main_telegram_bot.py)

Installation

1. Clone the repository
2. Install the required dependencies pip install -r requirements.txt
3. Setup your telegram bot with the Bot Father
4. Copy bot_template.yaml to bot.yaml and modify the TOKEN and CHAT_ID values in bot.yaml
   1. If something goes wrong while collecting the discount from the sources, a message will be sent to that chat.
   2. If you don't want to be notified, simply remove CHAT_ID from bot.yaml
5. If you're on Linux, install the ChromeDriver driver with sudo apt install chromium-chromedriver

Usage

Discount Updater

Run the discount updater script to scrape discount information from the sources and generate a file with the results.

python main_discount_updater.py

You can set up a cronjob to run this script at regular intervals to keep the discount information up-to-date.

Telegram Bot

Run the Telegram bot to provide users with discount information fetched from the generated file.

python main_telegram_bot.py

The bot responds to the following commands:

/search: Search for specific discounts
/all: Retrieve all available discounts

Contributing

Feel free to contribute to the project by adding other sources of discount information.