Creation of a news aggregator bot
Goal:
Create a fully automated Telegram bot for aggregating news from specified online resources. Key requirements are instant publication of fresh content in a specified format, ensuring 100% reliability, and creating an architecture ready for easy integration of new source websites in the future.
My Contribution:
The project started with a challenge: the source website did not have an obvious and documented API or RSS feed for obtaining news. Standard integration methods were impossible, which could have led to the creation of an unstable solution.
My contribution involved developing a reliable data acquisition strategy and building a fault-tolerant system:
Deep source diagnostics: Instead of a superficial approach, I conducted a detailed analysis of the website's structure. This allowed for the development of an accurate "map" of data (CSS selectors) for web scraping, ensuring the extraction of only the necessary information without "junk."
Strategic stack choice: I decided to build all logic on self-hosted n8n. This provided maximum flexibility and allowed avoiding the limitations of third-party builders, which often struggle with custom parsing tasks.
From scratch, I developed a single workflow that serves as the "brain" of the aggregator. This system is directly integrated with the Telegram API and uses Google Sheets as a lightweight control database, managing the entire cycle:
Automatically retrieving the HTML code of the page.
Reliable parsing and structuring of data (title, link, date).
Validating and cleaning data (for example, converting relative links to absolute ones).
Intelligent duplicate checking through Google Sheets, ensuring the uniqueness of each publication.
Result:
Successfully developed and launched a fully autonomous news pipeline. The client received a turnkey solution that operates 24/7 without any intervention.
The final architecture is highly scalable: adding a new source website does not require rebuilding the entire system and comes down to creating a new standardized parsing module. This provides the client with long-term value, allowing easy expansion of the source network with minimal costs. The solution ensures 100% reliability of publications and complete control over the process thanks to operating on a self-hosted instance of n8n.
#n8n #GoogleSheets #Telegram #TelegramBot #Automation #NoCode #WebScraping #WorkflowAutomation #API #APIIntegration #ChatbotDeveloper #BusinessAutomation #Parsing #Automation
Create a fully automated Telegram bot for aggregating news from specified online resources. Key requirements are instant publication of fresh content in a specified format, ensuring 100% reliability, and creating an architecture ready for easy integration of new source websites in the future.
My Contribution:
The project started with a challenge: the source website did not have an obvious and documented API or RSS feed for obtaining news. Standard integration methods were impossible, which could have led to the creation of an unstable solution.
My contribution involved developing a reliable data acquisition strategy and building a fault-tolerant system:
Deep source diagnostics: Instead of a superficial approach, I conducted a detailed analysis of the website's structure. This allowed for the development of an accurate "map" of data (CSS selectors) for web scraping, ensuring the extraction of only the necessary information without "junk."
Strategic stack choice: I decided to build all logic on self-hosted n8n. This provided maximum flexibility and allowed avoiding the limitations of third-party builders, which often struggle with custom parsing tasks.
From scratch, I developed a single workflow that serves as the "brain" of the aggregator. This system is directly integrated with the Telegram API and uses Google Sheets as a lightweight control database, managing the entire cycle:
Automatically retrieving the HTML code of the page.
Reliable parsing and structuring of data (title, link, date).
Validating and cleaning data (for example, converting relative links to absolute ones).
Intelligent duplicate checking through Google Sheets, ensuring the uniqueness of each publication.
Result:
Successfully developed and launched a fully autonomous news pipeline. The client received a turnkey solution that operates 24/7 without any intervention.
The final architecture is highly scalable: adding a new source website does not require rebuilding the entire system and comes down to creating a new standardized parsing module. This provides the client with long-term value, allowing easy expansion of the source network with minimal costs. The solution ensures 100% reliability of publications and complete control over the process thanks to operating on a self-hosted instance of n8n.
#n8n #GoogleSheets #Telegram #TelegramBot #Automation #NoCode #WebScraping #WorkflowAutomation #API #APIIntegration #ChatbotDeveloper #BusinessAutomation #Parsing #Automation
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