news-pasa

news-pasa is a Telegram bot that scrapes an online news portal every 10 minutes, summarizes the latest news using Gemini 2.5 Flash, and broadcasts the summary to all subscribed users.

🤖 Bot Access

• Click here to try the bot on Telegram

✨ Features

• Scrapes news from a predefined source every 10 minutes
• Summarizes articles using Google Gemini 2.5 Flash
• Automatically sends news summaries to all users who activated the bot
• Uses Redis to store and manage scraped data efficiently

💬 Telegram Bot Commands

• /start – Subscribes you to news broadcasts
• /cancel – Unsubscribes you from further broadcasts
• /help – Shows help and usage instructions

🚀 Installation

1. Clone the Repository

   git clone https://github.com/Ashimkarrki/bot.git
   cd bot

2. Set Up Environment Variables

   Create a .env file in the root directory with the following content

    BOT_TOKEN="your-telegram-bot-token-from-botfather"
    GEMINI_API="your-gemini-api-key-from-google-ai-studio"
    DEV_HOST="localhost"  # Use if testing locally (requires Redis installed on host)
    PROD_HOST="redis"     # Use this when running inside Docker
   

3. Run Docker

   docker compose up 

4. Initialize the Scraper

   After containers are running, open a shell inside the Python container:

   docker exec -it <python_container_id> sh
   python3 extractLinks.py initial

   This prevents scraping of all existing news on the first run and sets a baseline for tracking new news.

📝 Logs

To view the cron job logs

docker exec -it <python_container_id> sh
cat /var/log/cron.log

⚙️ Tech Stack

Python – Core bot logic and scraping

Scrapy – For structured and efficient web scraping

Crontab – Schedules scraping every 10 minutes (modifiable via crontab file)

Redis – Lightweight key-value store for deduplication and user management

Docker – Containerized deployment and environment isolation