Divar Telegram Bot

A simple crawler and notifier of divar.ir advertisements, based on pre-defined conditions.

Introduction

This telegram bot notifies you whenever a new ad appears in the specified topic on Divar, an Iranian Persian classified ads and E-commerce app.

Usage

Pre-requisites

1. Open @BotFather in Telegram, create a new bot, and note its token (Or use an existing bot token) to use in the .env file later.

2. Send a message to @getidsbot and the response should be something like this:

   👤 You
   ├ id: 00000000
   ├ is_bot: false
   ├ first_name: Ehsan
   ├ last_name: Seyedi
   ├ username: _ (https://t.me/_)
   ├ language_code: en (-)
   └ created: ~ 2/2014 (?) (https://t.me/getidsbot?start=idhelp)
   

   Note the id to use in the .env file later.

3. Open your bot (from step 1) and press Start (So the bot can send messages to your account chat).

4. Visit the Divar, select your city, and go to the desired category. Choose some search conditions like this:

   

   The web browser's URL should be something like this:

   https://divar.ir/s/tehran/rent-residential/abshar?size=65-120
   

   Note everything after https://divar.ir/s/, in this case, it will be tehran/rent-residential/abshar?size=65-120, to use in the .env file later like this:

   SEARCH_CONDITIONS = "tehran/rent-residential/abshar?size=65-120"
   

Local

git clone https://github.com/debMan/divar-telegram-bot.git 
cd divar-telegram-bot
cp .env.sample .env
# edit .env file with datas from Pre-requisites step
editor .env
echo '[]' > tokens.json
pip install -r requirements.txt
./main.py

Docker

git clone https://github.com/debMan/divar-telegram-bot.git 
cd divar-telegram-bot
cp .env.sample .env
# edit .env file with datas from Pre-requisites step
editor .env
echo '[]' > tokens.json
docker compose up -d

Development

To run the crawler in development mode, simply follow the Local or Docker instructions with an uncommented build: . line in the docker-compose.yml file, then:

docker compose up --build 

Final Result