ice444-222/homework_bot

This Telegram bot serves as a notifier for the status of homework reviews on Yandex.Practicum.

Telegram Bot for Yandex.Practicum Homework Service

The goal of this bot is to notify users about the status of their homework reviews on the Yandex.Practicum - Yandex.Homework service. The bot periodically checks the review status via the service's API every 10 minutes, and if the status changes, it sends a notification to the user.

How to Run the Project:

Clone the repository and navigate to it in the command line:

git clone [email protected]:Ice444-222/homework_bot.git 

cd homework_bot

Create and activate a virtual environment:

python3 -m venv env

source env/bin/activate

Install dependencies from the requirements.txt file:

python3 -m pip install --upgrade pip

pip install -r requirements.txt

Technology Stack:

Python 3.9.10
python-telegram-bot 13.7
requests 2.26.0

Description of Operation:

The main logic of the program is described in the main() function, which consists of the following functions:

get_api_answer(): Sends a request to the only API endpoint of the Yandex.Homework service, returns information about the latest homework.
parse_status(): Extracts the current status and title of the homework from the information.
send_message(): Sends a message to the Telegram chat.

Environment Variables:

It is safer to store the tokens for accessing the Yandex.Homework API (PRAKTIKUM_TOKEN), Telegram bot token (TELEGRAM_TOKEN), and Telegram chat ID (TELEGRAM_CHAT_ID) not directly in the code but in environment variables. The "location" of storing them depends on how you deploy the project; you can store them locally in the .env folder.