telegram-helper | Personal Telegram assistant bot to automate daily tasks

To get a local copy up and running follow these simple steps.
Create a blank Telegram bot with BotFather. This step is very simple to do, just go to the link above, talk to the botfather bot and follow the stps. More info and detailed steps in this Medium article. Copy the token provided by your new bot into the credentials.py script. Create a blank app in Heroku. Deploy the app in Heroku.
Clone the repo $ git clone https://github.com/lhandal/telegram-helper.git
Install required packages $ pip install -r requirements.txt
Create a blank Telegram bot with BotFather This step is very simple to do, just go to the link above, talk to the botfather bot and follow the stps. More info and detailed steps in this Medium article
Copy the token provided by your new bot into the credentials.py script.
Create a blank app in Heroku
Deploy the app in Heroku $ heroku login #login $ git init $ heroku git:remote -a {heroku-project-name} $ git add . $ git commit -m "Final Commit Deploying to Heroku" $ git push heroku master In my case I used GitHub CI/CD offered by heroku to redeploy the app with every commit to my repo. You can configure this inside the app preferences!
Go to the kaffeine heroku app and paste the name of your app in there. If you don't know, after 30 minutes of inactivity, Heroku puts your app to sleep (idle) if you are using their free tier. Most of the times that is perfectly fine, since a request or ping will wake it up. Kaffeine pings your app every 25 minutes to avoid idleness.