A few questions about the project... #5
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Good afternoon! Although I haven't used your project yet, I have a few questions to ask you. I'm Italian too like you but I will try to structure the text in English anyway. I'll start by saying that for some time now I've been looking for something that would allow me to automatically have offers sent to me regarding specific products of interest to me. I therefore came across this project of yours which seems very interesting to me, having also had the opportunity to have a field test of what it can do (thanks to your Telegram channel). However, as I said before, I have doubts about the project in general:
I apologize for the many questions but I wanted to be sure before using it. Hoping not to cause you too much trouble, I wish you a good day! |
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Hello, thanks for your interest! I'll respond in points:
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Good evening Alberto, thank you for clarifying my ideas. Over the next few weeks I will try to experiment with some code for the Proxie, hoping that the resulting code will be efficient. However, I would like to ask you one last question, although not relevant to the project, in reference to the last point: when signing up for the plan with Oracle, you were asked to insert a credit card. Now, since I don't have it, but simply have a prepaid card, could you tell me if it is also accepted? Furthermore, still regarding Vps, I was wondering if your execution is based on Cron Job or something else. Finally, I wanted to ask you if your VPS has a graphical interface, and if it can be inserted. Thanks again and have a good evening! |
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Good evening.
Honestly I do not know. Just try or google it.
It is based on a cron job (
It doesn't have a GUI, but you can install a window manager & co. and use it through remote desktop |
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Perfect, it was just for completeness. Thank you! |
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Good afternoon Alberto! Hoping not to be annoying, I have a question for you: basically, by using your code, I got another idea that I don't know how feasible it could be. In practice, if with your project you are going to automate the scraping on the site and the posting on the Telegram channel, I was wondering if instead there was the possibility of ensuring that this scraper is created as a single bot which, after receiving the URL a single product, scrapes it by sending the information inside the bot itself. This idea derives from the fact that for some types of offers (such as price errors), there is no real scraping but you have to go and look for them independently. Starting from this starting point, I ask you, would it be possible to do something like this? Thanks in advance! |
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Hello, sure you can. Basically you just need to get the url through the bot, then you call If you are willing to implement this feature, please make a PR. |
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Hi, I was trying to do something like this but I probably don't have the skills needed to make it work. I'm also helping myself with AI but I haven't achieved a satisfactory result with that either. In fact, although the bot activates without errors, I can't get it to take the URL passed via private chat, in addition to the fact that it stops running after a short while. I honestly don't know how to do it... |
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The following should be a similar working example using python-telegram-bot library: import os
import time
from telegram import Update
from telegram.ext import ApplicationBuilder, CommandHandler, MessageHandler, ContextTypes, filters
from dotenv import load_dotenv
load_dotenv()
base_path = Path(os.environ["BASE_PATH"])
async def start(update: Update, context: ContextTypes.DEFAULT_TYPE):
await context.bot.send_message(chat_id=update.effective_chat.id, text="I'm a bot, please talk to me!")
print(update.effective_user.username)
async def url_received(update: Update, context: ContextTypes.DEFAULT_TYPE):
await update.message.reply_text("Url received")
text = update.message.text
# parse message to get url, maybe with regex
# call amazon library
# send amazon data back to the telegram user
def main():
app = ApplicationBuilder() \
.read_timeout(100) \
.write_timeout(100) \
.token(os.environ["TG_BOT_TOKEN"]) \
.build()
app.add_handler(CommandHandler("start", start))
app.add_handler(
MessageHandler(filters.TEXT & (filters.Entity("url") | filters.Entity("text_link")),
url_received))
app.run_polling()
if __name__ == '__main__':
main() |
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Hello, thanks for your interest! I'll respond in points:
Finally based on my experience, the bot is running on a VPS from about a year ago and it always worked.
In any case we are doing only a few number of requests: some for collecting a set of discounted products (every 2 hours) and one request for each item sent.