Metacritic New Releases To Telegram

What is this

I used to check Metacritic's new releases every time and save the Spotify link of the new albums in my Telegram account, so I automated it

Files explanation

• app.py: the main app to be run
• config.py: parses the configs (not to be changed)
• new_releases.py: fetches the new releases and saves them as well
• public_config.ini: the configurations of the app
• README.md: this file
• requirements.txt: the libraries that app use
• AlbumOBJ.py: contains class for album objects
• JSON_handler.py: handles json files
• Log.py: handles logger
• Spotify_handler.py: handles spotify interactions
• Telegram_handler.py: handles telegram

Installation

1. python 3.8 or above, preferrably 3.11 (installed and added to path)

2. pip install -r requirements.txt

3. make a private_config.ini file with this structure:

   [api]
   bot_token = token_of_your_bot
   
   
   [database]
   chat_id = the_chat_id_to_send_the_albums_to
   
   [spotify]
   client_id = client_id_of_spotify_app
   client_secret = client_secret_of_spotify_app
   

   bot_token -> from BotFather chat_id -> from Get My ID or Using the link of the message (if is channel or group) client_id and client_secret -> from Spotify Developer Dashboard

4. change public_config.ini if needed (not necessary): skip_if_date_dont_match -> skips the sending of the album if the date doesn't match with the url log_level -> debug, info, warning, ... read_webpage_from_file -> for developement. read the albums from website or the meta file save_to_webpage_file -> for development. save the content of webpage to the meta file webpage_file_name -> webpages's offline file name (eg meta.html) number_of_fetched_albums -> between 1 and 50. used in spotify's library to increase the chance of finding the album

Usage

python app.py

• Note: You have to manually stop the bot after the links are sent, using CTRL+C then the program asks you to either save the new releases or not (choose yes if everything went well)