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I got tired of refreshing Telegram. So I built a bot that does it for me

DEV Community·nomad4tech·28 days ago
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It started with a stupid habit 🫠 Every morning (or even during the day) I'd open a news channel to check one thing - some specific topic I actually cared about. Twenty minutes later I'd be three threads deep into something completely unrelated, mildly annoyed at myself, and no closer to the thing I opened the app for Telegram has no keyword alerts (as far as I know). No filters. No way to say "notify me when this appears, ignore everything else." You either follow the channel and see everything, or you don't follow it and miss things. So I built @telescope_one_bot 🙂 What it does Simple premise: you tell it which public channels to watch and which keywords to look for. When a new post matches - you get a notification. That's it. You don't open the channel. You don't scroll. You just get the relevant thing delivered. Keyword matching works in three modes: Single word - prefix match. football matches footballer , footballing , etc. Number - exact match. 2026 won't match 20261 . Phrase - full phrase match.…

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