Tsoping

This is a tool that posts a link to a Telegram chat when Tsoding uploads.

Building

To build with Nix, run nix build. result/bin/tsoping will contain the script.

Dependencies can be seen in the flake.nix file.

tsoping run

This program expects two files to be present in the current directory:

data/chat.id -- the id of the chat where to send the link. The bot has to be added to this chat.
data/telegram.secret -- the bot's secret token provided by BotFather.

The following command line may be helpful to discover the id of the chat to which the bot has been added:

curl "https://api.telegram.org/bot$(cat secret)/getUpdates" | jq

The program has a couple of different modes, which may be helpful for debugging. They are indicated by the first argument to the program.

fetch: fetches the feed, converts it to JSON and saves it to data/videos.json.
set-start-time: sets data/last.time with the current system time. You may want to set the time manually.
set-chat-id: saves the chat id given as an argument to data/chat.id (this is just an echo at the time of writing).
links: does all of the above if needed, but also filters out only new videos and saves them to links.txt.
send-to-telegram: sends one link to the Telegram chat and updates the time in data/last.time.
Run: sends all not yet sent links since the recorded time to the Telegram chat.

MIT.