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• Quick navigation
• Overview
• Installation
  • Preparations
  • Running the bot
• Changing the settings
  • Main settings
  • Graph settings
• Debugging

Overview

The bot allows you to get a daily message about the current price of BTC. The bot also sends you a graph that visualizes the price changes of the currency over the last 24 hours.

Here is an example of the daily message:

Installation

The installation process was designed to be user as user friendly as possible :)

Preparations

Install the dependencies:

python3 -m pip install -r requirements.txt

Run the installation script:

python3 installer.py

Change the bot's token and the notification time:

python3 setttings.py -t <token>
python3 settings.py -n <time>

The default notification time is 07:00. You can read more about the settings file in the "Changing the settings" section.

Running the bot

Run the price scrapper in the background for generating the graphs:

python3 price_scraper.py &

You can now run the bot by using:

python3 run.py

Changing the settings

Main settings

Changing the bot's token:

python3 settings.py -t <token>

Enabling debug mode:

python3 settings.py -d <True/False>

Changing the notification time:

python3 settings.py -n <time>

The time should be input in the "hours:minutes" format using the 24 hour time system i.e. python3 settings.py -n 07:00.

Graph settings

Changing the border width:

python3 settings.py -b <value>

Changing the bar color:

python3 settings.py -c <color>

The color should be input in the hex color format i.e python3 settings.py -c D3D3D3

Debugging

List all the users in the database:

python3 user.py -a

List all the subscribed users in the database:

python3 user.py -s