yas0nia / news_aggregator_novaia_gazeta

Telegram bot for scraping regional news websites in russia, Digital Resistance Lab hackathon, Berlin May 2023

News aggregator

Installation:

1. Clone this repository and cd to the its folder.

2. Create config.py file with required credentials (see config_example.py). This file shoud be in the same folder with all the scripts.

3. Install all required dependecies - pip install -r requirements.txt

4. Start telegram_parser.py, to authenticate through telethon(https://docs.telethon.dev/en/stable/) and receive bot.session, gazp.session files required for bot's work.

IMPORTANT: use your telephone number when requested, do NOT use your bot API key as it won't be able to forward messages as a bot, you do it 'through' your account.

5. Run any parser available or run python main.py to start all the parsers

Running a Docker image

1. Make sure Docker is installed on your computer if you use Windows or MacOS.

2. Clone repository and cd to the its folder.

3. Create config.py file with required credentials (see config_example.py). This file shoud be in the same folder with all the scripts.

4. Run docker build --tag dockerbot . to build an image.

5. After that, run docker run -it dockerbot. IMPORTANT: use your telephone number when requested, do NOT use your bot API key as it won't be able to forward messages as a bot, you do it 'through' your account.