This is a Python script that scrapes comments from a Steam discussion thread and sends their content, as plain text, to a Telegram chat. It also stores a hash of each comment, so that the same comment is not sent twice.

This script was created in order to get alerts for free PC games, from this url.

This script requires the following Python libraries:

• beautifulsoup4
• requests
• python-telegram-bot

These can be installed via pip:

pip install -r requirements.txt

1. Create a Telegram bot and get its token. You can follow the instructions here to create a new bot and obtain its token.
2. Add the bot to a Telegram group or channel where you want to receive the comments.
3. Set the environment variable TELEGRAM_BOT_TOKEN to the token of your bot.
4. Set the environment variable TELEGRAM_CHAT_ID to the ID of the group or channel where you want to receive the comments. You can find the ID by following the instructions here.
5. Alternatively, you can /start a conversation with you bot and set TELEGRAM_CHAT_ID to your own user id. You can find your ID by following the instructions here.
6. Set the environment variable WAIT to the number of minutes to wait between each check for new comments. For example, to wait 5 minutes, set WAIT to 5.
7. Set the environment variable STEAM_URL to the Steam discussion page.
8. Run bot.py:

python bot.py

The script will start scraping the comments and sending them to your Telegram group or channel. It will save the current page number to a file (current_page.txt) so that it can resume from where it left off the next time it is run. You can always edit this file if needed.

To stop the script, press Ctrl+C/Cmd-C.

1. Build the Docker image:

docker build -t steam-discussion-scraper .

2. Run the Docker container, setting the environment variables as necessary:

docker run -e TELEGRAM_BOT_TOKEN=<bot_token> -e TELEGRAM_CHAT_ID=<chat_id> -e WAIT=<minutes> -e STEAM_URL=<steam_url> steam-discussion-scraper

This script is released under the MIT License.