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By AstolfoKawaii, 5 years ago, translation, In English

Recently codeforces created own telegram channel, but it doesn't have the functionality I need (for now there were only notifications about failures and contests, frequently, right before them), of course, it is better than nothing, but I want something more, I didn't find anything suitable on the internet, so I created my own bot.

It is already running @CodeforcesNewsBot.

Now it is in the alpha version, but I hope at the start of the new year it will become stable.

It is already able to receive and operatively notify you about news from home page or from "top" page (it depends on how you set it up).

In the future, I am going to add more functionality (for example notifications about contests) and improve the interface (now it is quite raw).

If you found a bug (want to ask a question or something else...), send me a message using codeforces or email [email protected].

Thanks! *Happy New Year everyone!

UPD: This bot is now distributed under the GPLv3 license and you can find the source code here https://gitlab.com/FrozenAndrey/cf-news-bot.

Beta version was released! https://codeforces.com/blog/entry/64363
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Doesn't seem to work in groups. When added to groups, tg automatically adds @CodeforcesNewsBot to the end of bot command. For example /help@CodeforcesNewsBot isn't working but only /help is. While typing /help tg suggests /help@CodeforcesNewsBot.

And that is actually needed. Imagine a case when a group has multiple bots and all of them has a /help command.

Please fix the issue.

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