HodlBot: A Telegram bot for checking and watching crypto coin prices
I got into crypto currencies a few months ago and have been loving tracking the market and hodling ever since then! About the time that I got into crypto currencies, I was looking for a new development hobby project and decided to make one around crypto currencies. I've been spending my evenings making HodlBot, which is a Telegram Bot that checks current crypto coin prices through cryptocompare and allows you to set up a watch on various coins.
HodlBot is free and available here if you wish to try it out.
Current core features of the bot are:
/price <COIN SYMBOL>
/price ETH would get the current price for Ethereum
/watchdog add <COIN SYMBOL> <THRESHOLD>
/watchdog add ETH 5 - would add a watch for Ethereum at it's current price, so if it fell over or under 5%, your chat will get an alert. The alert will then be removed but a button will appear to re-add the watch at the same threshold but with the new current price. /watchdog list /watchdog list - will display a list of the current coins that are being watched in the chat
/watchdog remove <COIN SYMBOL>
/watchdog remove <COIN SYMBOL> - will remove a previously added coin from watchdog
/help
All of this information is in the bot also so this will display all available commands
HodlBot can be in a single chat with you or in a group chat, all of the watch functionality is exclusive to the chat that it is set in. It's fostered some good conversation in the crypto groups that I'm in, especially around the rising and falling of ETH recently.
HodlBot is still in development and I have a few features to add such as picking a default currency for the watch functionality (currently euros) but I feel that it is in a good enough state to share with the community! I am also planning to add support for other chat clients such as Slack and Facebook Messenger.
I would love to get some feedback on the bot so feel free to try it out!
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