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Send a daily horoscope to Telegram
A small scheduled job that posts each sign's day to a Telegram channel.
This guide posts today's reading for each sign to a Telegram channel, once a day, from a scheduled job. It needs a Telegram bot token from BotFather, and your API key.
The job
import datetime as dt
import os
import httpx
API = "https://api.96astroapi.com/v1"
HEADERS = {"Authorization": f"Bearer {os.environ['ASTRO_API_KEY']}"}
SIGNS = ["Aries", "Taurus", "Gemini", "Cancer", "Leo", "Virgo", "Libra", "Scorpio", "Sagittarius", "Capricorn", "Aquarius", "Pisces"]
today = dt.date.today().isoformat()
lines = []
for sign in SIGNS:
res = httpx.post(f"{API}/predictions/sign-daily-areas", headers=HEADERS, json={"sign": sign, "date": today}, timeout=60)
res.raise_for_status()
areas = res.json()["data"]["areas"]
lines.append(f"*{sign}*: {areas['profession']['text']} {areas['personal_life']['text']}")
httpx.post(
f"https://api.telegram.org/bot{os.environ['TELEGRAM_TOKEN']}/sendMessage",
json={"chat_id": os.environ["TELEGRAM_CHAT"], "text": "\n\n".join(lines), "parse_mode": "Markdown"},
timeout=30,
).raise_for_status()Run it once a day with cron, or any scheduler you already have.
Good to know
- Each call costs 1 credit, so this is 12 credits a day, or about 360 a month.
sign-daily-areasgives six areas:personal_life,profession,health,emotions,travelandluck. Each has aratingout of 5 and atext.- A Telegram message is limited to 4,096 characters. Choose fewer areas, or send one message per sign, if you go over.
- Send an
Idempotency-Keywith the date and sign if your scheduler can run a job twice. Then a repeat is never charged again.