A Bot that fetches challenges from r/dailyprogrammer and sends them to you via telegram.

For the bot to work you'll need:

• A heroku account, you can create one here if you don't have one.
• A telegram account.
• A reddit account

Fork this repository.
Clone the fork you just created.

Go to Heroku website, login and create a new App; choose a meaningful name for your App.
Go to Resources and search for Heroku postgres under add-ons and attach the database to your app.
Now we need to add a python build pack, head over to Settings>Add Build Pack>Select the Python Option.

Click here to install heroku cli for your OS.
create a .env file in the directory with the bot. You will save all your credentials in this file.

Login to your telegram account and search for @BotFather follow the instructions given and then copy the bot token given. Save the token in the .env file you created as BOT_TOKEN = Your token

Search for myidbot and type in /getid. Save the id you get from the bot in the .env file as CHAT_ID = id.

Click here and create a new app > script.
Add the following to the .env file cSC = secret, cID = personal use script, USER_AGENT = name, USERNAME = Your reddit username, PASSWORD = Your reddit password.

On your terminal run the following command.
heroku authorizations:create

Save the token as HEROKU_API_TOKEN = token and add HEROKU_APP_NAME = Your app name to the .env file. Finally, go to heroku, click on the app you made > Settings > Reveal config vars and copy the database url and save it as DATABASE_URL = database url. \

On the terminal run the following commands:
heroku login
heroku git:remote -a NAME_OF_YOUR_HEROKU_APP
git add .
git commit -m "deployment commit"
git push --set-upstream heroku master

Then: chmod +x reddit_bot.py
./reddit_bot.py --create
./reddit_bot.py --insert This takes some time so you might want to get some coffee.

For each of the variables in the .env file, run the command heroku config:set VARIABLE_NAME=VARIABLE_VALUE
run heroku config:set QUESTIONS=number of questions you want per day to set the number of questions to receive per day.

If I update the code, you can merge the changes with the code you have by running the following commands:
git pull
git add .
git commit -m "commit message"
git push heroku

The bot runs for five minutes then shuts down. You can visit https://cron-job.org/en/ and set the time when the bot should run and send the challenges.

If you can make this project better, open a PR and I will merge your pull request.