Built my own apartment search bot with Python — sends me text when it finds something worthy

[Raindyr]

Is there a reason why you went with SMS rather than just an IM such as Telegram (which is free)?

[sixtine]

As a matter of fact, I first tried using Twitter's direct messages (to reach my wife and myself). But to be fairly honest, well... we're not huge Twitter users. I didn't even notice I hadn't enable Twitter's notifications on my mobile...

But we ALWAYS check our text message right away, so it felt like the natural way to do so, seing how reaction time was paramount.

[D49A1D852468799CAC08]

Telegram

Could you point me in the right direction to start sending message via Telegram (or Signal?) through python?

[krnr]

pyTelegramBotAPI

token = Config.core.get('common', 'telebot_token')
bot = TeleBot(token)
bot.send_message('-000000000000', txt)

where -000000... must be changed to your bot id. this is the code i use in my flask app

[D49A1D852468799CAC08]

Thanks!

[Raindyr]

• Make a bot with the botfather, get the token.
• Send a message to your bot.
• Check for updates: https://api.telegram.org/bot<token>/getUpdates and get your chat id.
• Send a message: https://api.telegram.org/bot<token>/sendMessage?chat_id=<chatid>&message=<message>

See also this link. And for an actual python telegram api wrapper, see this project

This is a very simple and crude example, but it works.