Lowercase and no-repeat message implemented

binance-scraping-bot.py

@@ -25,36 +25,38 @@ api = tweepy.API(auth)
 
 # Binance extract function
 def extract_binance(main_webpage, key_words):
-    # Create an empty string to store matchings
-    final_list = []
+	# Create an empty string to store matchings
+	final_list = []
 
-    # Scrap the entire web-page
-    sauce = urllib.request.urlopen(main_webpage).read()
-    soup = bs.BeautifulSoup(sauce, 'lxml')
+	# Scrap the entire web-page
+	sauce = urllib.request.urlopen(main_webpage).read()
+	soup = bs.BeautifulSoup(sauce, 'lxml')
 
-    # Extract the announcements
-    list = soup.find_all('li', class_ = 'article-list-item')
+	# Extract the announcements
+	list = soup.find_all('li', class_ = 'article-list-item')
 
-    # Check for matchings
-    for article in list:
-        article_text = article.get_text().replace('\n', '')
-        for item in key_words:
-            # If matching, create a new list
-            if item in article_text:
-                article_link = 'https://www.binance.com' + article.find('a').get('href')
-                final_list.append([article_text, article_link])
-    return final_list
+	# Check for matchings
+	for article in list:
+		article_text = article.get_text().replace('\n', '')
+
+		for item in key_words:
+			# If matching, create a new list. Use LOWERCASE!
+			if item in article_text.lower():
+				article_link = 'https://www.binance.com' + article.find('a').get('href')
+				final_list.append([article_text, article_link])
+
+	return final_list
 
 # Telegram function
 def tg_call(update, context):
-    # Send a message when the command /start is triggered 
+	# Send a message when the command /start is triggered 
 	update.message.reply_text("Hello mate! Let me start checking")
 
 	# Create two empty list for storing and comparing urls
-	old_urls, news_urls = [], []
+	old_urls, new_urls = [], []
 
 	# Create a bag of key words for getting matches
-	key_words = ['List', 'list', 'Token Sale', 'Open Trading', 'open trading']
+	key_words = ['list', 'token sale', 'open trading', 'opens trading']
 
 	# Create the first pass
 	main_webpage = 'https://www.binance.com/en/support/categories/115000056351'
@@ -62,32 +64,38 @@ def tg_call(update, context):
 
 	# Loop pass - Watchdog mode
 	while True:
-        # Get new list of urls
-	    new_urls = extract_binance(main_webpage, key_words)
-	    for item in new_urls:
-            # Compare if they were included in the former list
-	        if item not in old_urls:
-	            msg = item[0] + '\n' + item[1]
-	            api.update_status(msg) # Twitter
-	            update.message.reply_text(msg) # Telegram
-	    update.message.reply_text('Done for now. Time to go to sleep mate!')
-	    time.sleep(900) # Sleep for 15 min
+		# Get new list of urls
+		new_urls = extract_binance(main_webpage, key_words)
+		
+		for item in new_urls:
+			# Compare if they were included in the former list
+			if item not in old_urls:
+				msg = item[0] + '\n' + item[1]
+				api.update_status(msg) # Twitter
+				update.message.reply_text(msg) # Telegram
+
+				# Append the message in order to not repeat the messages
+				old_urls.append(item)
+
+		update.message.reply_text('Done for now. Time to go to sleep mate!')
+		time.sleep(900) # Sleep for 15 min
 
 # Main function
 def main():
-    # Create the updater
-    updater = Updater(TG_TOKEN, use_context=True)
 
-    # Get the dispatcher to register handlers
-    dp = updater.dispatcher
+	# Create the updater
+	updater = Updater(TG_TOKEN, use_context=True)
 
-    # Start the loop with /start
-    dp.add_handler(CommandHandler("start", tg_call))
+	# Get the dispatcher to register handlers
+	dp = updater.dispatcher
 
-    # Start the Bot
-    updater.start_polling()
-    updater.idle() # killall python3.7 to kill the app
+	# Start the loop with /start
+	dp.add_handler(CommandHandler("start", tg_call))
 
-# Start
+	# Start the Bot
+	updater.start_polling()
+	updater.idle() # killall python3.7 to kill the app
+
+# Start - Check if this file is run directly by python or it is imported
 if __name__ == '__main__':
 	main()