a telegram bot that will send updates to a channel whenever an update has been released for an app store app. apps are checked for updates every 20 minutes. this bot will rely on files saved to your local filesystem, however they will be stored in ~/.zxcvbn/ so they are not visible.

this script is made for macos and linux users. you can not use this on windows.

git clone https://github.com/asdfzxcvbn/update-notifier

pip3 install -r update-notifier/requirements.txt

sudo cp update-notifier/updateNotifier.py /usr/local/bin/updates

sudo chmod +x /usr/local/bin/updates

starting with v2, you no longer need to change any code to use the bot. you are going to have to set up your bot token, chat id, and country. run updates start to fill in the required info.

talk to BotFather and make a new bot. after the bot is made, BotFather will send you the token.

refer to the following stackoverflow answer.

visit this wikipedia page, find your country, and get its alpha-2 code.

to add an app to monitor, simply run the command updates add <appname> <bundleid>. <appname> must be contain no spaces or symbols. for example, to monitor youtube:

updates add youtube com.google.ios.youtube

or to monitor spotify:

updates add spotify com.spotify.client

you can get an app's bundle id with this website.

simply run updates in a terminal. the best option is to run this on a server that is always on. you can let this run in the background with tools like screen.

if it was, i would appreciate any donation. :) my monero address is 82m19F4yb15UQbJUrxxmzJ3fvKyjjqJM55gv8qCp2gSTgo3D8avzNJJQ6tREGVKA7VUUJE6hPKg8bKV6tTXKhDDx75p6vGj

you may also scan this QR code.