Telegram bot which fetches Bot posts top submissions from a subreddit. NewsBot is used to demo a short, simple Python project in my book, Practical Docker With Python.

Refer to the book repo for other exercises using this code.

• Clone the repo or download the code

• Install the requirements with pip

  pip3 install -r requirements.txt

• Set the environment variable NBT_ACCESS_TOKEN where the value is the Bot token generated using Telegram BotFather.

  • See instructions on how to generate the token in Chapter 3 or refer to this guide
  • See this guide on how to set environment variables

• Start the bot python newsbot.py

where <token> is the Telegram Bot API token