Telegram News Digester

Content

• 80% authentic human code
• 20% synthetic LLM hallucinations

Features

• Fetches unread messages from the specified Telegram channels (1 day window)
• Creates analytical summaries grouping news by topics across all sources
• Publishes to Telegra.ph and posts the link to a designated channel

Configuration and Installation

Telegram App setup

Create a new Telegram application to get API credentials:

• Go to https://my.telegram.org/apps

• Create application and save api_id and api_hash

• See Telethon docs for details

Important: The device_model, system_version, and app_version fields in config are mandatory. Telegram actually bans accounts if these are mis-specified or suspicious.

Configuration

Copy and edit configuration files:

# Channel lists, timezone, etc
cp inst/config.example.yaml config.yaml
# Credentials
cp inst/example.env .env

Sign in once and save the session file.

Deployment

Examine and run scripts/deploy.sh.

License

WTFPL