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🚀 TechCrunchNews Bot 🌐

Welcome to the TechCrunchNews Bot! 💥 This powerful Telegram bot is your gateway to the latest tech news from TechCrunch, delivered directly to your Telegram channel. Built with cutting-edge tools like Pyrogram and MongoDB, this bot ensures you stay ahead of the curve in the fast-paced world of technology. 🌟

🌟 Features

  • Automated News Updates 💫: Fetches the latest TechCrunch articles every 40 minutes and posts them to your channel.
  • Rich Media Posts ✨: Each post includes the article title, a concise summary, an image (when available), and additional details scraped from the article.
  • Interactive Buttons 👀: Inline buttons allow users to refresh the news, read the full article, join a tech news channel, or share the post with others.
  • Smart Duplicate Prevention ❄️: Uses MongoDB to track posted articles, ensuring no duplicates clutter your feed.

🛠️ Setup

Follow these simple steps to get the bot up and running:

  1. Clone the Repository 📂:

    git clone https://github.com/abirxdhack/TechCrunchNews.git
cd TechCrunchNews

  2. Install Dependencies 🛠️: Make sure you have Python 3.9 or above installed. Install the required packages using:

    pip install -r requirements.txt

  3. Configure the Bot ⚙️:

    • Copy the config.py template and create your own config.py file.
    • Fill in the following values:
      • API_ID: Your Telegram API ID. Get it from my.telegram.org.
      • API_HASH: Your Telegram API Hash. Get it from my.telegram.org.
      • BOT_TOKEN: Your bot's token. Get it by creating a bot via BotFather on Telegram.
      • MONGO_URI: Your MongoDB connection string. Set up a MongoDB database and obtain the URI from your provider (e.g., MongoDB Atlas).
      • DB_NAME: The name of your MongoDB database.
      • COLLECTION_NAME: The name of the collection where posted articles will be stored.
      • CHANNEL_USERNAME: The username of the Telegram channel where the bot will post news (e.g., @yourchannel).

📋 Requirements

  • Python 3.9 or above 🐍
  • Pyrogram ⭐️
  • aiohttp
  • feedparser
  • beautifulsoup4
  • pymongo
  • psutil

Tip: Use pip install -r requirements.txt to install all dependencies at once! 💡

🚀 Running the Bot

Locally 💻

To run the bot on your local machine:

python main.py

The bot will start fetching and posting news to your channel every 40 minutes.

On a VPS ☁️

To run the bot on a Virtual Private Server (VPS) and keep it running in the background, use screen:

  1. Install screen (if not already installed): 
    sudo apt-get install screen
  2. Start a new screen session: 
    screen -S techcrunch_bot
  3. Run the bot inside the screen session: 
    python main.py
  4. Detach from the screen session by pressing Ctrl+A followed by D.
  5. Reattach to the screen session later (if needed): 
    screen -r techcrunch_bot

Pro Tip: Using screen ensures your bot keeps running even after you close the terminal! 🖥️

🤝 Contributing

Love tech news as much as we do? Join the fun! 💥 Feel free to:

  • Open an issue to report bugs or suggest enhancements.
  • Submit a pull request to improve the code or add new features.

Your contributions help make this bot even better! 🌐

📜 License

This project is licensed under the MIT License. See the LICENSE file for details.

✨ Stay ahead of the curve with TechCrunchNews Bot! ✨
Clone the repo, set it up, and enjoy a steady stream of tech updates delivered right to your Telegram channel! 👀