Lowercase and no-repeat message implemented

binance-scraping-bot.py

@@ -38,11 +38,13 @@ def extract_binance(main_webpage, key_words):
 	# 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:
+			# 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
@@ -51,10 +53,10 @@ def tg_call(update, context):
 	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'
@@ -64,17 +66,23 @@ def tg_call(update, context):
 	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
+
+				# 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)
 
@@ -88,6 +96,6 @@ def main():
 	updater.start_polling()
 	updater.idle() # killall python3.7 to kill the app
 
-# Start
+# Start - Check if this file is run directly by python or it is imported
 if __name__ == '__main__':
 	main()