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Watchful1 / UpdateMeBot

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Would a telegram bot connection out of the scope of this project? #106

Closed Poolitzer closed 3 years ago

Poolitzer commented 5 years ago

Hey there.

I just discovered your bot, I love it. Just thought about adding a telegram connection, but before I dive into it (which will probably take up some time), I figured that asking you first if you think its over the line might be a good idea :)

Why Telegram? It is a messaging service with bot connection, so their notifications service may better. I had some trouble with reddits one, but maybe thats only me.

But you can also add the bot to a group/channel, so if a group of people on Telegram wants to receive updates from a thread and then discuss it in their group, they can do this easier with the bot.

I am not saying that the majority of the current users of your bot will end up using it in Telegram, but maybe some.

What do you think?

Watchful1 commented 5 years ago

That might be something I could do long term, I am planning to implement support for reddit's built in chat once they release their API for it. But it's going to take some major re-architecting, so I don't think I would accept a pull request for it.

You would probably be able to use ifttt.com to send a telegram message when you get a notification message from the bot.

Poolitzer commented 5 years ago

Hmm, thanks for the hint