rentbot

This bot scans the most popular flat rent portals for latest posts in Vilnius, which will be sent to subscribed users using Telegram app.

Original idea taken from https://github.com/erkexzcx/bbtmvbot

See the buy-flat branch for the buybot. A branch of this project which enables real estate search.

Usage

Below are the steps on how to host it yourself.

1. Setup Telegram bot

Using BotFather create your own Telegram bot.

Also using BotFather use command /setcommands and update your bot commands:

info - Information about the Rent Bot
enable - Enable notifications
disable - Disable notifications
config - Configure bot settings
districts - Configure district settings
replay - replay posts from last 2 days

Once you setup bot, you should have your bot's Telegram API key.

2. Set up the secrets Add a .env file in the root of the project with the following content:

TELEGRAM_TOKEN=your_token

3. Build it

docker compose build

3. Run it

docker compose up