Telegram bot for Product Hunt Daily

Forwarding top(vote > 100) Product Hunt posts to Telegram channel in real time.

Prerequisites

To deploy the project by yourself, you need to create a Telegram Channel and Bot.

MemCachier is using for caching. Other Memcaches are supported also.

All configs and credentials are read from environment variables via dotenv. That is, you need to create a .env file manually and putting all variables inside.

Here is an exmample:

BOT_TOKEN=your_telegram_bot_token
CHAT_ID=@your_channel_id
MEMCACHIER_SERVERS=your_memcachier_service
MEMCACHIER_USERNAME=your_memcachier_username
MEMCACHIER_PASSWORD=your_memcachier_password

Install

virtualenv is recommended for installing:

virtualenv -p python3 ENV
source ENV/bin/activate
pip install -r requirements.txt

Or you can also use your system Python:

pip3 install -r requirements.txt

Run

python ph_daily.py

For a production environment, pm2 is recommended:

pm2 start ph_daily.py --interpreter ./ENV/bin/python --watch

or, with pm2 ecosystem file:

pm2 start ecosystem.config.js

Run with Docker

docker pull maxhis/ph_daily:1.0.2
docker run --rm --env-file ./.env -t maxhis/ph_daily:1.0.2