readme.md

Setup instructions for using telegram bot along with scrapy

Install dependencies:

pip install -r requirements.txt

Run flask server:

export FLASK_APP=server.py
flask run

Run scrapyd

export TELEGRAM_BOT_TOKEN=abc
cd echoscraper
scrapyd

Deploy scraper to scrapyd

export TELEGRAM_BOT_TOKEN=abc
cd echoscraper
scrapyd-deploy

Run telegram bot

export TELEGRAM_BOT_TOKEN=abc
python bot.py

Send /echo command to telegram bot.