RSSPyTelegramBotChUpdater

A lightweight Python bot that monitors an RSS feed and automatically posts new articles to a Telegram channel via a Telegram Bot.

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Features

• Polls any RSS feed at a configurable interval (default: every 5 minutes)
• Sends new posts to a Telegram channel with a formatted HTML message including title, summary, date, and link
• Persists already-sent links to a local JSON file to avoid duplicate messages
• Posts are sent in chronological order (oldest first)
• Simple, dependency-light, single-file script

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Requirements

• Python 3.7+
• A Telegram Bot token (get one from @BotFather)
• A Telegram Channel where your bot is an admin

Install dependencies:

pip install -r requirements.txt

Dependencies (requirements.txt):

feedparser==6.0.12
Requests==2.33.1

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Configuration

Open script.py and set the following variables at the top of the file:

Variable	Description	Example
BOT_TOKEN	Your Telegram Bot token	"123456:ABC-DEF..."
CHANNEL_ID	Your channel username or numeric ID	"@mychannel" or "-1001234567890"
RSS_URL	The RSS feed URL to monitor	"https://example.com/feed.xml"
CHECK_INTERVAL	Polling interval in seconds	300 (5 minutes)
STORAGE_FILE	Path to the JSON file for storing sent links	"sent_links.json"

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Usage

python script.py

The bot will start polling the RSS feed and print status messages to the console:

🚀 Bot RSS avviato! Controllo ogni 300 secondi.
✅ Messaggio inviato

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Project Structure

RSSPyTelegramBotChUpdater/
├── script.py          # Main bot script
├── requirements.txt   # Python dependencies
├── sent_links.json    # Auto-generated — stores already-sent article links
└── README.md

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Message Format

Each new article is sent as an HTML-formatted Telegram message:

📢 Nuovo Post!

📰 Article Title

🗓️ 2025-01-15

Short summary of the article...

👉 Read the full article

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Tips

• Keep it running: use nohup, screen, tmux, or a systemd service to run the bot in the background on a server.
• Customize the message: edit the message string inside fetch_and_send() to change the format.
• Multiple feeds: duplicate the fetch_and_send() logic or refactor it to loop over a list of RSS URLs.

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License

This project is licensed under the MIT License.