Send Individual Alerts In Telegram

Hello friends 👋

Today, we’re diving into the fascinating realm of Telegram bots and learning to create your personal individual alerts system made with Python. This guide will show you everything you need to create a powerful alert system that will send out notifications directly for the user only such as having your personalized digital voice whispering vital information directly in your pocket .

If you’re a novice programmer who is just beginning your journey into coding or a person who wants to automate their notifications, this tutorial has been intended to be easy and easily accessible. Think of it as building with LEGO bricks The tutorial will begin simple and add in more exciting features!

What You’ll Learn

At the time you finish this tutorial you’ll be able to:

• Designing and configuring Telegram bots entirely from scratch
• Understanding the bot’s authentication process and security
• Different types of messages can be sent (text documents, images, texts)
• Automated alerts and notifications
• Interactive features using menus and buttons
• Troubleshooting and handling of typical issues
• Advanced automated scheduling techniques and automation

Prerequisites and Setup

Before we embark on our bot-building adventure, ensure that you have everything in place:

Required Software

1. Python 3.7 or greater running on your system
2. Telegram application on your smartphone or on your computer
3. It is a Text editor (VS Code PyCharm, VS Code Notepad++ can be used)
4. Internet connection for API calls

Required Python Libraries

We’ll put them in place in the future But here’s the information we’ll require:

Step 1: Create Your Telegram Bot (Detailed Version)

An robot within Telegram an account that is controlled by software, not an individual human. Imagine it as your personal aid that can transmit messages and respond to commands and carry out automated tasks 24 hours a day.

Create Your Own Bot using BotFather

BotFather is Telegram’s official bot, which can help you build or manage bots. It’s akin to”the “bot Factory Manager” who provides you with key to build your own digital workforce.

Step-by-Step Bot Creation:

1. Open Telegram and look for @BotFather
   • Check for the account with a an Verification checkmark in blue
   • This assures that you’re talking to a real BotFather This ensures that you’re not talking to an fake bot.
2. Begin the conversation

/start

3. Then type:

/newbot

4. Choose a display name:This is the name people will see in their chat list
   Examples: “Personal Alert Assistant”, “Trading Signal Bot”, “Daily Reminder Bot”
   Be creative but clear about your bot’s purpose!
5. Choose a username:Must be unique across all of Telegram
   Must end with _bot or Bot
   Examples: personal_alerts_bot, trading_signals_2024_bot
   If your first choice is taken, try adding numbers or your name
6. Receive your bot token:
   BotFather will provide you with a unique token that looks like this:

1234567890:ABCdefGHIjklMNOpqrSTUvwxYZ

👉 Save this token safely. We will use it in Python.

Important Security Notes

Important: Your bot token acts as a master key for your bot. Don’t share it with anyone else or make it available to repositories that are public. Anyone who has this token can manage your bot!

The best practices

• To store tokens, use environments variables, or encrypted configuration files
• Never include tokens that you have hardcoded in your source code.
• Renew tokens if you suspect that they’ve been compromised
• Utilize various bots to develop and for production.

Step 2: Find Your Chat ID (The Complete Method)

It is your Chat ID is a unique number ID that allows your bot to know precisely the address where you can send your messages. Consider it your digital postal address within your enormous Telegram network.

Method 1: Using Bot API (Recommended)

1. Create your bot:
   • Find your bot’s username on Telegram
   • Select “Start” to start an online conversation
   • Send a test text like “Hello, Bot! “
2. Receive updates via API Change Your BOOT_TOKEN with your token and go to:
3. Now open this link in your browser (replace YOUR_TOKEN with your bot’s token):

https://api.telegram.org/botYOUR_TOKEN/getUpdates

4. You will see something like this:

{
  "message":{
    "chat":{
      "id":987654321,
      "first_name":"YourName",
      "type":"private"
    },
    "text":"Hi Bot 👋"
  }
}

👉 Here, 987654321 is your Chat ID.

Step 3: Write the Python Code

Now let’s write the Python code to send your first private alert 🚀

from telegram import Bot

# 🗝️ Your Bot Token
TOKEN = "1234567890:ABCdefGHIjklMNOpqrSTUvwxYZ"

# 🆔 Your Chat ID (from Step 2)
CHAT_ID = 987654321

# 🤖 Create the bot
bot = Bot(token=TOKEN)

# 📢 Send an alert message
bot.send_message(chat_id=CHAT_ID, text="📢 Hello Trader! This is your private alert 🚀")

👉 That’s all! Super short and simple.

Step 4: Run the Bot

1. Save the code as private_alert.py.
2. Open your terminal and run:

python private_alert.py

Congratulations! Your Bot is Complete!
You’ve created a complete Telegram bot successfully to notify you of the following features:

Core Features

1. Text alerts of basic quality with custom-designed formatting.
2. Priority level (Low Normal Critical, High) with appropriate Emojis.
3. Multimedia supports (images documents, images places).
4. Monitoring of the system by monitoring memory, CPU and the usage of disks.
5. Automatic scheduling with weekly, daily and custom timers.
6. Interactive Commands for control in real-time.
7. Handling errors and logging to ensure high-quality.

Advanced Capabilities

• Continuous automation that runs in the background.
• Multi-threaded Scheduling to allow simultaneous operations.
• Secure token management using environment variables.
• A scalable architecture for quick feature enhancements.
• Complete logging for monitoring and debugging.

Troubleshooting Common Issues

Issue 1: “Unauthorized” Error

Trouble: Bot returns 401 Unauthorized error Solution: Double-check your bot token and make sure it’s formatted

Issue 2: Messages Not Received

Trouble: Bot sends messages but you don’t get them. Solutions: Verify your Chat ID is correct, and that you’ve initiated the bot’s conversation

Issue 3: Import Errors

Issue: Python can’t find the required module Solution Installation of all required dependencies pip installation -r requirements.txt

Issue 4: Scheduling Not Working

Issue: Scheduled alerts don’t activate. solution: Ensure the scheduler thread is running and that times are in the 24-hour format.