NBAStatsTelegramBot

A Telegram bot that send NBA related tweets from ESPN Stats & Info, hosted as a https://webtask.io webtask.
When given a tweet ID (e.g. with a webhook) checkes whether the tweet or the photos matches certain keywords and sends it to a specific Telegram chat.

Links

	@nba_stats
	/r/NBAStatsTelegram

Usage

1. Create a twitter app

2. Create a telegram bot

3. Keyswords go inside main.js as the parameters playersKeywords, coachesKeywords, mvpsKeywords,teamsKeywords, draftKeywords and wordsKeywords.
   Each keyword list is a Promised array of strings.
   Keywords are case-insensitive.

4. Blacklist entries go inside main.js as the parameter blacklistPromise.
   The blacklist parameter is a Promised array of Objects.
   Each Object is of the form { is_accepted_because: "Hawks",blacklist: "Black Hawks"}. This means that if the bot will find Hawks as a keyword but also Black Hawks, then it won't consider Hawks as a keyword for this tweet. Blacklist Keywords are case-insensitive.

5. Create secrets.txt for API keys.

telegram_chat_id=<YOUR_TELEGRAM_CHAT_ID (get at @get_id_bot)>
telegram_bot_key=<YOUR_TELEGRAM_BOT_KEY>
twitter_consumer_key=<get at https://apps.twitter.com/app/XXXXXXXX/keys>
twitter_consumer_secret=<get at https://apps.twitter.com/app/XXXXXXXX/keys>
twitter_access_token_key=<get at https://apps.twitter.com/app/XXXXXXXX/keys>
twitter_access_token_secret=<get at https://apps.twitter.com/app/XXXXXXXX/keys>
ocr_space_api_key=<get at https://ocr.space/ocrapi>

6. Create a new https://webtask.io webtask.

wt create --name <NAME> --secrets-file secrets.txt main.js

(npm modules will be added automatically because of the package.json file.)

7. On https://ifttt.com create an applet from https://ifttt.com/create/if-new-tweet-by-a-specific-user?sid=2 to https://ifttt.com/create/if-new-tweet-by-a-specific-user-then-make-a-web-request?sid=6. On the webhook url give your webtask url and append ?tweet_url={{LinkToTweet}}

Deploy updates

wt update <NAME> main.js

Test & Debug

Create the file config_test.json along side main.js

{
  "telegram": {
    "chat_id": "<YOUR_TELEGRAM_CHAT_ID (get at @get_id_bot)>",
    "bot_key": "<YOUR_TELEGRAM_BOT_KEY>"
  },
  "twitter": {
    "consumer_key": "<get at https://apps.twitter.com/app/XXXXXXXX/keys>",
    "consumer_secret": "<get at https://apps.twitter.com/app/XXXXXXXX/keys>",
    "access_token_key": "<get at https://apps.twitter.com/app/XXXXXXXX/keys>",
    "access_token_secret": "<get at https://apps.twitter.com/app/XXXXXXXX/keys>"
  },
  "ocr_space_api_key": "<get at https://ocr.space/ocrapi>"
}

Test

npm test / yarn test

Debug

node main.js debug

License

MIT