BitcoinTalk Bot

For monitoring keywords on Bitcointalk, and posting them to Slack.

Forked with the following improvements:

• Straightforward Heroku deployment
• Code cleanup and standardization

Dev

Setup the virtual environment, and run:

$ mkvirtualenv bitcointalkbot -p `which python3`
$ pip install -r requirements.txt
$ python crawler.py

Deployment

Push the app to Heroku:

$ heroku create my-application-name
$ git push heroku master
$ heroku ps:scale bot=1

Configuration

The following config vars are required:

• KEYWORDS: a comma separated list of keywords to listen on
• SLACK_API_TOKEN: Slack authentication token (get one at https://synereo.slack.com/services/new/bot)
• SLACK_USERNAME: Username for bot on Slack
• SLACK_CHANNEL: Channel to post updates on Slack