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A telegram bot to notify you when the pollen count is high, using the UK's Met Office Pollen Forecast (UK only)
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This is a Telegram bot, to send you a message every time the pollen threshold reaches above a certain level.
It uses theMet Office's pollen forecast
Messagehttps://t.me/pollen_count_bot on Telegram to use.
| Requirement | Version |
|---|---|
| Python | 3.11.1 |
pip install -r requirements.txt
python bot.py
python bot.py start
To obtain an access token for telegram, seehelp page, but in essence, talk to theBotFather.
The access token is used via an environment variable, or a.env file, which is not tracked by git.
Also in the environment should be an "admin ID", where errors are sent via the error handler.
touch .env
TELEGRAM_BOT_ACCESS_TOKEN=...ADMIN_USER_ID=...
To store each user's location, reminder preference, and reminder threshold, a persistent pickle file is used. This is not tracked by git. This uses thePersistence API frompython-telegram-bot.
persistent_data=PicklePersistence(filepath="bot_data.pickle")application=Application.builder().token(API_KEY).persistence(persistent_data).build()
ssh alifeee@...sudo apt-get updatesudo apt install python3.11-venvsudo mkdir -p /usr/alifeeesudo chown alifeee:alifeee /usr/alifeeecd /usr/alifeeegit clone git@github.com:alifeee/pollen_bot.gitsudo adduser --system --no-create-home --group pollen_bot# sudo cat /etc/group# sudo cat /etc/passwd# sudo -u pollen_bot whoamipython3 -m venv env./env/bin/pip install -r requirements.txtsudo chown -R alifeee:pollen_bot.
scp .env alifeee@...:~/python/pollen_bot/sudo chown -R alifeee:pollen_bot .envcp pollen_bot.service /etc/systemd/system/pollen_bot.servicesudo systemctlenable pollen_bot.servicesudo systemctl start pollen_bot.servicesudo systemctl status pollen_bot.servicerunit is a bit like systemd. SeeFAQ.
mkdir /home/alifeee/python/pollen_bot/logssudo mkdir /etc/sv/pollen_botsudoecho'#!/bin/sh #cd /home/alifeee/python/pollen_bot & ./env/bin/python3 bot.py # redirect stderr to stdout exec 2>&1 # start program exec /home/alifeee/python/pollen_bot/env/bin/python3 /home/alifeee/python/pollen_bot/bot.py'> /etc/sv/pollen_bot/runsudo mkdir /etc/sv/pollen_bot/logsudoecho'#!/bin/sh exec svlogd -tt /home/alifeee/python/pollen_bot/logs'> /etc/sv/pollen_bot/log/runsudo ln -s /etc/sv/pollen_bot /etc/service/sudo sv start pollen_botsudo sv stop pollen_botsudo sv status pollen_botsudo sv restart pollen_bot
Log files are stored in the folder specified above, so for this script, they are in~/python/pollen_bot/logs.
ssh alifeee@...cd~/python/pollen_botgit pullsudo sv restart pollen_bot
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A telegram bot to notify you when the pollen count is high, using the UK's Met Office Pollen Forecast (UK only)