HackLabAlmería RSS and Feeds parser bot

This is a very simple Telegram bot for automagically feeding HackLab Almería Telegram channel and group with some of the community activity.

Requirements:

It should work on a Python 2.7 interpreter, along with the following dependencies:

• beautifulsoup4
• requests
• python-dateutil
• lxml==3.6.1
• pytz==2016.6.1

You can install them manually with pip or by using sudo -H pip install -r requirements.txt.

Usage:

Run python parser.py to get it working. It should be called regularly, using a CRON or some service.

You can set the PARSE_ONLY_NEW to True to parse only new items since the last time this script was executed, or to False to parse and send all items, including possible duplicates.

You may change the target Channel by modifying the BOT_CHANNEL variable using your public channel id - in example: @ChannyMcChannelFace. Remember to invite the bot to your channel as an administrator.

You can also change the target Group, but you have to get the secret group id. To do that, you can invite the my_id bot to the desired group and then ask him /my_id. The result will be the group id. You should invite the bot as a group's member.

How does it work?

The SOURCES variable contains the list of Source objects that will provide the data. Each Source has an Adapter which will turn the raw response of the Source into a valid Message.

All messages will be merged into a single list which will be sorted ascending by date so older messages are sent first and everything is received in the correct order.

Messages will be sent to both the Channel and the Group and only will be considered the last sent item - aka last_item when they were sent successfuly to both chats.

One more thing:

Telegram supports some HTML tags, but not all of them and you can't nest tags - i.e. <b><a>...</a></b>. Be careful with your tags or the messages won't be sent at all.