flathunter VS aiogram

Hi, I can relate to a lot of the things you wrote.* are you out of the probezeit? You should be since you've been here for 7 months(probezeit is almost always 6 months). I don't know your situation but, if you're out of your probezeit then generally speaking it should be pretty hard to fire you, even if you're an immigrant. You should be able to have more of a work-life balance now.* What I did when I was in your shoes(non-eu tech worker immigrant) was that I started going to meetups organized via meetup.com. I didn't really care what it was very much, I tried different things. It helped for sure. I found a couple of friends I still talk to and do stuff together.* I also connected with some of the other immigrants from my country; that was actually less successful than going to meetups but it all depends on your situation* as for the flat hunt, if you're a tech worker then you should be able to set up https://github.com/flathunters/flathunter on your machine or the cloud or whatever. If you set it up so that that you get telegram notifications or something like that, that could improve your chances DRASTICALLY.

I used an open-source software to find my place. Maybe it will be useful for you as well: https://github.com/flathunters/flathunter.

If you are able to setup a Python program on your PC, you should check out Flathunter: https://github.com/flathunters/flathunter/. It helps you message someone seconds after they post their offers. I managed to find my place by being the first person to message after 20 seconds :) Good luck

When I found my flat they told me about having received 300+ messages in the first five minutes of the offer being posted. Maybe if you are IT-affine you could try Flathunter?

The BerlinFlatsBot also works but the refresh timer was high, I think it was 5min or 10min. I used https://github.com/flathunters/flathunter for a faster refresh timer on immoscout and a badly written webcrawler that counts the address html tags for wbm.

this is what you want: https://github.com/flathunters/flathunter

The first idea is doable if you have programming skills. Maybe with something like this: https://github.com/aiogram/aiogram

It could be made to join groups, I'll really consider that if there is a demand. I'm using Aiogram bot and it support this.

Here, the decorators have already used filters built into aiogram. The entire list of such filters can be found here.

Of course, it's good to write API requests yourself. It reduces the dependency on third-party libraries and allows you to control the behavior of the code more. But when there are more such methods than twenty, it already increases the size of the code. It becomes difficult to manage all the logic. This is where third-party libraries(frameworks) come to the rescue. After choosing a language, you can consider the options of different libraries from the list here, on the official Telegram page. For JavaScript I recommend using node-telegram-bot-api and telegraf. For Python you can take pyTelegramBotAPI and aiogram(highly recommended).

you can start by looking at python-telegram-bot, pyTelegramBotAPI, aiogram. The rest is looking throught the documentation.

aiogram

I'd suggest not using pyTelegramBotAPI because of its unstable polling. If you're ok with asyncio, try https://github.com/aiogram/aiogram

I'm willing to release the code on GitHub along with an article on my blog if you are interested. The bot is coded in Python using mainly the Aiogram package https://github.com/aiogram/aiogram.

I have never used python-telegram-bot (which looks like to be your case), but with aiogram, it's pretty easy to send mediafiles: https://github.com/aiogram/aiogram/blob/dev-2.x/examples/media_group.py (you can replace "attach_photo" with "attach video"). Note that the latest aiogram version 2.12 seems to be broken, so downgrade to 2.11.2.

look into async solutions. https://realpython.com/async-io-python/ https://github.com/aiogram/aiogram -> aysnc telegram https://github.com/pgjones/quart -> flask replacement