[TELEGRAM] Yet Another BitcoinTalk Notification BOT (merits, mentions, topics,+)

[Rizzrack]

Fixed, thanks. Changed some fields but forgot to clear the cache.

Damn dude, that was fast !

Seems you had a lot of training in your trip! As you are one fast reliable AI 

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[TryNinja]

New update!


- Added Tracked Boards: get notified for new topics made on specific boards (e.g topics made in the Meta board and its children boards).




- Added Tracked Users: get notified for new posts (or only new topics) made by specific users.




Just run /menu to get the new version of the menu.

Let me know of any bugs, this is mostly still WIP.

[shahzadafzal]

New update!


- Added Tracked Boards: get notified about new topics made on specific boards (e.g topics made in the Meta board and its children boards).




- Added Tracked Users: get notified about new posts made by specific users.




Just run /menu to get the new version of the menu.

Let me know of any bugs, this is mostly still WIP.

Wow that's big news and a major update if you ask me... I remember long back I requested this.

Thank you TryNinja!!! You are beating theymos in upgrading bitcointalk (although he's been competing very well recently) but still.

One question/suggestion like we track topics is it possible to track postings of a specific user?

I love to follow some users and see what they are posting and where? It helps me to track interesting postings.

[FatFork]

Let me know of any bugs, this is mostly still WIP.

I must say, this is a highly anticipated and incredibly valuable update. With this new development, the bot has become an indispensable tool for all frequent visitors of this forum. It's hard to imagine what more could be done to improve it. Thank you so much, @TryNinja. I'm playing around with the new features and I'll let you know if I run into any glitches.

[LoyceV]

- Added Tracked Users: get notified about new posts made by specific users.

I'm not using your bot (because I don't like and barely use Telegram), but I have a feature that I would like to see: can you (optionally) track only new topics made by that user, instead of all his posts?
Also, "tracked" sounds very bad for privacy conscious people. Isn't "follow" a more appropriate term?

[TryNinja]

Small follow-up update!

You can now choose whether you only want to be notified about new topics from a user instead of all posts. Ty @LoyceV for the suggestion.

Also, "tracked" sounds very bad for privacy conscious people. Isn't "follow" a more appropriate term?

But you're being tracked. I'm ȅ̸̻v̶̞͓͘e̵̮̮̔r̸͓̞̿y̵̺̔̊w̴͖͛h̵̿̈́ͅē̵̼̗͑ŕ̶̼͖͆ě̴̦̝.

[fillippone]

Small follow-up update!

You can now choose whether you only want to be notified about new topics from a user instead of all posts. Ty @LoyceV for the suggestion.

Also, "tracked" sounds very bad for privacy conscious people. Isn't "follow" a more appropriate term?

But you're being tracked. I'm ȅ̸̻v̶̞͓͘e̵̮̮̔r̸͓̞̿y̵̺̔̊w̴͖͛h̵̿̈́ͅē̵̼̗͑ŕ̶̼͖͆ě̴̦̝.

Very nice addition to the stalking following tracking bot.
I think I will give it a go.

On a separate note.

Do you have any vague statistics on the usage of your bot? How is it usage evolving over time?

[TryNinja]

Do you have any vague statistics on the usage of your bot? How is it usage evolving over time?

I was planning on a celebration post after 1 million notifications, but it is taking too long, so...

Posts notifications: 734k
Merits notifications: 80k
Total: 815k

584 total users
493 active users (didn't block/stop the bot)

[Mitchell]

New update!


- Added Tracked Boards: get notified for new topics made on specific boards (e.g topics made in the Meta board and its children boards).


- Added Tracked Users: get notified for new posts (or only new topics) made by specific users.

Thank you so much, now I won't miss new topics by minerjones!

[giammangiato]

@tryninja Your bot, my dear friend, has become a real bomb. Nothing comparable has been done or thought about, for example I use it all the time and it's very comfortable.
It is also very well made, quick to respond and never breaks.
A great job

[Lillominato89]

yes you are absolutely right, it is really a bomb! now I can't do without it if I want to stay up to date on the topics that interest me while I'm not connected to the forum! congratulations from me too, I think the bot is perfect in all its functions

[owlcatz]

@tryninja Your bot, my dear friend, has become a real bomb. Nothing comparable has been done or thought about, for example I use it all the time and it's very comfortable.
It is also very well made, quick to respond and never breaks.
A great job

yes you are absolutely right, it is really a bomb! now I can't do without it if I want to stay up to date on the topics that interest me while I'm not connected to the forum! congratulations from me too, I think the bot is perfect in all its functions

This is absolutely 100% bomb as you guys have said. If I have someone to talk to in person then this is what I would say to that person "You have no idea how much TryNinja's BOT help me in this forum", I always on look out whenever someone mentioned me and I would open the link right away to reply to that person. I never experienced any problem for quite some time even there are new features that TryNinja added to the bot.

Don't forget to throw some sats at the donation address so we can all keep it going!... I'm overdue for my yearly donation myself!

Thanks again @TryNinja

[TryNinja]

New Update

You can now make your own scripts/plugins and programmatically trigger custom notifications through an API endpoint.

1. Run /api and grab your API token.
2. Trigger notifications with the endpoint:

Code:

POST https://api.ninjastic.space/notification
{
  "api_key": "XXXXXXXXXXXXXX",
  "message: "You have <b>1</b> new message from <b>satoshi</b>\n\nCheck now!"
}

Style the message with HTML tags supported by telegram: https://core.telegram.org/api/entities#allowed-entities

As an example, I made a very simple bash script that triggers a notification if you have any unread personal messages:

Code:

#!/bin/bash

forumUsername=""
forumPassword=""
forumCaptchaCode=""
supernotifierApiKey=""

login=$(curl -s -c cookies.txt -X POST -L \
  -H "Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded" \
  -d "user=${forumUsername}&passwrd=${forumPassword}&cookieneverexp=on&hash_passwrd" \
  --url "https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=login2;ccode=${forumCaptchaCode}"
)

page=$(curl -s -b cookies.txt --url https://bitcointalk.org)

messages=$(echo "$page" | grep -oP 'My Messages \[<strong>\K\d+(?=<\/strong>\])')

if [ -z $messages ]; then
  messages=0
fi

if [ $messages -gt 0 ]; then
  curl -s -X POST \
    -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
    -d "{ \
      \"api_key\": \"${supernotifierApiKey}\",
      \"message\": \"You have <b>${messages}</b> new personal message(s)!\n\nhttps://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=pm\"
    }" --url https://api.ninjastic.space/notification
fi

Could be useful for custom self-hosted solutions (e.g that require authentication, like the example above) or maybe some kind of subscription newsletter? For example, a signature manager or company could take API keys from interested users and send announcements en mass.

Let me know if you have ideas for a plugin you would like to use!


Thanks everyone for the kind words.

[fillippone]

As an example, I made a very simple bash script that triggers a notification if you have any unread personal messages:
<...>

Could be useful for custom self-hosted solutions (e.g that require authentication, like the example above) or maybe some kind of subscription newsletter? For example, a signature manager or company could take API keys from interested users and send announcements en mass.

Let me know if you have ideas for a plugin you would like to use!


Thanks everyone for the kind words.

Sorry, I am dumb.
Does this mean I can activate a warning for my incoming PM? That would be great, as I often miss those.
If not, this is because that requires the bot to know my forum password, thus being too risky?

[TryNinja]

Sorry, I am dumb.
Does this mean I can activate a warning for my incoming PM? That would be great, as I often miss those.
If not, this is because that requires the bot to know my forum password, thus being too risky?

You can do anything you want on your own machine/server and trigger notifications with a simple POST request.

The script in question runs locally on your device, logins to your account, checks for any unread DM (if there's a number next to "My Messages" on the navbar), and triggers a notification through the bot. All the bot sees is that you triggered a notification, no forum credentials leave your device.

I made it very quickly only for showcasing, though, so it's missing a bunch of things (i.e every time you run it, it will let notify you of the same DM if you didn't read it in the meanwhile). But anyone can run it every few hours through a cronjob, for example. Or make their own.

[fillippone]

Sorry, I am dumb.
Does this mean I can activate a warning for my incoming PM? That would be great, as I often miss those.
If not, this is because that requires the bot to know my forum password, thus being too risky?

You can do anything you want on your own machine/server and trigger notifications with a simple POST request.

The script in question runs locally on your device, logins to your account, checks for any unread DM (if there's a number next to "My Messages" on the navbar), and triggers a notification through the bot. All the bot sees is that you triggered a notification, no forum credentials leave your device.

I made it very quickly only for showcasing, though, so it's missing a bunch of things (i.e every time you run it, it will let notify you of the same DM if you didn't read it in the meanwhile). But anyone can run it every few hours through a cronjob, for example.

Understood in principle, but I have no idea on how to implement this.
Is there any guide on how to do that? Maybe @babo can help on this?

[TryNinja]

Understood in principle, but I have no idea on how to implement this.
Is there any guide on how to do that? Maybe @babo can help on this?

My script was made in bash, so you could run it if you're on linux, macOS, or if you have something like wsl2 on windows.

1. Save the script as supernotifierDM.sh or whatever you want and fill in the credentials at the top.
2. Make it executable with: chmod +x supernotifierDM.sh
3. Run at any time with ./supernotifierDM.sh

Or add it to a cronjob so it runs every X hours:

1. Run: crontab -e
2. Choose an editor (e.g nano)
2. Add the crontab rule at the bottom of the text file, for example, every hour: 0 * * * * /root/supernotifierDM.sh

https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/how-to-run-bash-script-in-linux/
https://phoenixnap.com/kb/set-up-cron-job-linux


Might be a bit too much for some people so a python or nodejs script should be easier to use (I can probably make one later if anyone is interested).

[fillippone]

Might be a bit too much for some people so a python or nodejs script should be easier to use (I can probably make one later if anyone is interested).

Well, I think this is beyond my possibilities for the moment.
I will point my fellow friend @babo toward this, and I will ask him to tinker with this. But I guess I will have to check my PM's manually!

[joker_josue]

I will point my fellow friend @babo toward this, and I will ask him to tinker with this. But I guess I will have to check my PM's manually!

You don't have the active forum option, so that when you receive a DM, you also receive an email notifying you?
Profile > Notifications and Email > [check] Receive forum announcements and important notifications by email.

Of course it's not the same thing, but there's always some notification when you receive a DM. In this case to your email.

[mendace]

Might be a bit too much for some people so a python or nodejs script should be easier to use (I can probably make one later if anyone is interested).

Well, I think this is beyond my possibilities for the moment.
I will point my fellow friend @babo toward this, and I will ask him to tinker with this. But I guess I will have to check my PM's manually!

No if you edit the script as tryninja has indicated you don't need to do it manually.  Too bad I have my pc out of order otherwise I could have tried Fil.

You don't have the active forum option, so that when you receive a DM, you also receive an email notifying you?
Profile > Notifications and Email > [check] Receive forum announcements and important notifications by email.

Of course it's not the same thing, but there's always some notification when you receive a DM. In this case to your email.

exactly, I also always receive an email when someone contacts me in PM