Sending Screener Notifications On Telegram With Python
Easily send signals over to telegram on a schedule
In our current times staying on top of the latest signals can be challenging. Especially if the screeners are not automated to provide the most up-to-date information on the latest signals. That’s why tying a screener to telegram can make one aware of a lot of opportunities. It can notify you when a new signal is found (and we all get the dopamine hit when a new notification arrives on our smartphones). You can also share this screener with people for fun (and of course profit).
To be able to follow along you
- know you way around Python
- have a Telegram account
- have a screener, that outputs a
stringwhen it finds a new signal
Working with telegram
Although there are many excellent solutions to sending your signals over to telegram I prefer to use pyTelegramBotAPI - you just need a token and you are off to the races.
How to get your telegram token
In order to get your telegram token you need to go through a couple of steps:
- Open Telegram and find @botfarther
- [Optional] To see all available commands type
/help - To create a new bot just write
/newbot - Go through the prompts from botfather
- At the end it will give you your API key.
How to get your channel id
- Login with a browser version of telegram: https://web.telegram.org/
- Click on your channel.
- At the end of your current url after the
#should be your channel id. It always starts with a minus.
Combining it with your screener
However do note that this bot is only sending messages to a telegram channel and does not respond to any messages, targeted at it. But for our use case, this is plenty.
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Running the screener on a schedule
As shown above, to send a single message its quite simple. A way to automate it is to host that script and run it on a schedule using crontab - good article on it.
Another way to automate it, within python is to use a library to automate this process. I used schedule.
Something to take into an account is that you need to wrap all of your code into a single function. A simple refactor you could do is shown below.
Adding schedule
Let’s assume you want to send a message every hour, exactly at 00.
Easy enough.
Combining it all together
Conclusion
In this article I showcased how easy it is to send your screener notifications and signals over to telegram and run it on a schedule. That’s all there is to it.
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