asishkakumanu / gradcafe-crawler

A telegram bot for Gradcafe website

GradCafe Crawler

A telegram bot which scraps information from GradCafe site using users input

Create a bot

Create a bot using botfather Botfather

Creating a new bot Use the /newbot command to create a new bot. The BotFather will ask you for a name and username, then generate an authorization token for your new bot.

The name of your bot is displayed in contact details and elsewhere.

The Username is a short name, to be used in mentions and telegram.me links. Usernames are 5-32 characters long and are case insensitive, but may only include Latin characters, numbers, and underscores. Your bot's username must end in ‘bot’, e.g. ‘tetris_bot’ or ‘TetrisBot’.

Telegram Bot API

Generating an authorization token If your existing token is compromised or you lost it for some reason, use the /token command to generate a new one.

Use the token which is generated and place it here ==> TOKEN = ' ' in scrapy.py file

More bot commands here

Now start the bot using the below commands To start the bot : /start To stop the bot : /stop

Query syntax

<University_Name>
<University_Name> <Program_Name>
<Program_Name>

Examples

Ex : Toronto
Ex : Toronto Applied Computing
Ex : Applied Computing

Screenshots

Packages used

• Telepot
• regex
• scrapy
• urllib
• beautifulsoup