tfevre / crypto_price_bot

Token price - BOT Telegram

This project allows you to get the price of famous crypto currencies on telegram if the price goes above a certain value
You can choose the crypto and choose the value !

There is also a daily recap at 23:59 each day
All price values are logged into a log file called script_ltc_log

Bot Configuration

Clone this repo :

git clone <repo_url>

Enable script execution :

chmod u+x script.sh

Then run script.sh :

./script.sh

SetUp a bot on Telegram by using @BotFather Create a new public group and add the bot.
Request the API :https://api.telegram.org/bot/getUpdates And get your chat_id.

In telegram_bot.sh edit $BOT_TOKEN and $GROUP_ID with YOUR OWN values.

Linux / Cron Job configuration

On your linux instance, after cloning this repo you can setup a cron job to get Telegram notification every min if you want. Go into the project folder and run :

$ crontab –e

In the crontab terminal edit and write :

* * * * * <PATH_TO_script.sh>

Close the terminal and you should get a sucess message.

> crontab: installing new crontab

Done !

Example

Here is an example for Litecoin (LTC), with a telegram message trigger when the price is above 50 $ :
Open the file called "log_exemple.txt", to show what the log file looks like.
(Please ignore the time on this example)