How To Create a Telegram Bot Using Python

For the past year, Telegram has introduced tons of new features including in-app games, bots, Telegraph and Instant Views, channels, groups and many more. What's going to be a next killer feature? Nobody knows. In this humble note I would like to show you how you can create a simple telegram bot using a popular programming language called Python.

Bots are great at many things, especially at automating borings tasks. It is up to your imagination what functions your future bot will have, but today we are going to create the one which will communicate with Planet Python, popular Python news aggregator. Bot will simply parse latest content and send it back to you via Telegram.

Our app will consist of django app and its source code is available on my github as planetpython_telegrambot repo. Feel free to fork and do whatever you want to do :)

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Celery Best Practices: practical approach

Celery is the most advanced task queue in the Python ecosystem and usually considered as a de facto when it comes to process tasks simultaneously in the background. The lastest version is 4.0.2, community around Celery is pretty big (which includes big corporations such as Mozilla, Instagram, Yandex and so on) and constantly evolves. Hence investing your time in this technology pays back.

This article is not about how to set up Celery, installation is pretty straightforward and instructions can be found on the official website. Instead, I would like to emphasize your attention on best practices while working with Celery.

Tips & Tricks with Celery