Showing calendar events in Telegram

If you’ve a Telegram group, it might be interesting the ability of https://t.me/redken_bot for adding a calendar ical that automates publishing each day the events in the agenda for the day. If you did read Python and iCalendar ICS processing, part of the basis in that article are part of the bot and are easily used: For configuring, only a few simple steps are required: Have a calendar ICS/webcal accessible (for example a public Google Calendar one) Have a Telegram group where we do want to publish the events Add @redken_bot to the group Specify the URL del calendar and the name Lets see some screenshots of the process for you to check how easily it can be achieved. ...

March 21, 2023 · 2 min · Pablo Iranzo Gómez

In action...@redken_bot with examples

Redken in action with some examples Let’s learn about using Redken in Telegram or Discord with some examples…. but first, let’s add the bot to a new group based on the platform we’re using: Redken_bot in Telegram Redken in discord Let’s get hands on! First of all, some of the commands shown will require admin privileges in the chat (from the user point of view) and from Redken. Redken uses admin privileges to: ...

January 20, 2022 · 3 min · Pablo Iranzo Gómez

Redken machine learning for spam detection

For some of the telegram groups I’m in, I’ve been detecting users that after some period of time, just publish spam messages of any topic. There are many bots for controlling when a user joins, by showing a CAPTCHA that user must resolve (either clicking a button, answering a mathematical operation, inputting a CAPTCHA image text, etc). Some time ago, a colleague was using Machine Learning and I wanted to have a look at it and it would make a good feature to implement. ...

June 24, 2021 · 8 min · Pablo Iranzo Gómez

Python and iCalendar ICS processing

Introduction iCalendar (.ics or webcal) is a standard for providing ‘calendar’ information over text file, it allows to define events, etc and it’s ideal to ‘subscribe’ over the internet to remote calendars, which is commonly used to show free/busy slots for scheduling meetings, etc. If you’re familiar with Google Calendar or others, it uses ‘ics’ under the hood, and you can get full url for it so that it can be shared. ...

September 17, 2019 · 5 min · Pablo Iranzo Gómez

@redken_bot

Redken Manual This document contains some information about regular Redken https://t.me/redken_bot usage and some advanced settings. Introduction By default, new groups where the bot is added are just ready to start being used. General usage and features: word++ to add karma word-- to remove karma reply to message with ‘++’, ‘–’ or ‘==’ to add or remove karma to the user of the replied message or to the same words that were used /quote add username text to add a quote for a given username with the following text as the message /quote username to retrieve a random quote for that username. @all to ping all usernames for users in a channel @all++ to give karma to all usernames in a channel stock <ticker> to get the trading quote for ticker in stock market /hilight <add|delete|list> <word> Adds/deletes word or lists words that will cause a forward to notify you /feed <add|delete|list> name url Adds/deletes/lists a new feed form URL on channel /remind <add|delete|list> name interval text Adds/deletes/lists a new reminder for interval in channel, interval can be specified as ‘1y2m3w5d’ /ical <add|delete|list> name url Adds/deletes/lists a new ical url to print events happening during the day /cn <word> To get a random Chuck Norris fact related with the provided word (or random) /excuse To get a random excuse Also, while nothing is set against, you could use /gconfig to configure several aspects of it like: ...

March 4, 2019 · 8 min · Pablo Iranzo Gómez
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