bigger fixes

telegram_bot/bot.py

@@ -579,9 +579,20 @@ def send_transactions(message):
     else:
 
         for transaction in transactions:
-            comment = hf.make_markdown_proof(transaction['comment'])
+            comment = hf.make_markdown_proof(transaction['comment']) or "\(no desc\)" # if comment is empty, make it "no desc"
             isin = hf.make_markdown_proof(transaction['isin'])
-            bot.send_message(chat_id=user_id, text=f'_{comment}_\n{isin}\namount: {transaction["count"]}\nprice: {transaction["price"]}\ntime: {transaction["time"]}', parse_mode="MARKDOWNV2")
+            amount = hf.make_markdown_proof(transaction['count'])
+            price = hf.make_markdown_proof(transaction['price'])
+            time = hf.make_markdown_proof(transaction['time'])
+            """
+            comment = transaction['comment']
+            isin = transaction['isin']
+            amount = transaction['count']
+            price = transaction['price']
+            time = transaction['time']
+            """
+            print(f'_{comment}_\n{isin}\namount: {amount}\nprice: {price}\ntime: {time}')
+            bot.send_message(chat_id=user_id, text=f'_{comment}_\n{isin}\namount: {amount}\nprice: {price}\ntime: {time}', parse_mode="MARKDOWNV2")
 
 
 @bot.message_handler(commands=['shares', 'Shares'])

telegram_bot/helper_functions.py

@@ -32,6 +32,7 @@ def make_markdown_proof(text): # used to avoid errors related to markdown parsem
 
     :rtype: string
     """
+    text = str(text)
     
     text = text.replace("_", "\\_")
     text = text.replace("*", "\\*")

telegram_bot/news/news_fetcher.py

@@ -20,14 +20,16 @@ load_dotenv() # loads environment vars
 # Init
 api_key = os.getenv('NEWS_API_KEY') # get API Key from .env file
 newsapi = NewsApiClient(api_key=api_key) # news api from https://newsapi.org/
+
 try:
     # get all available news sources (e.g BBC, New York Times, etc.)
     source_json = requests.get(f"https://newsapi.org/v2/top-headlines/sources?apiKey={api_key}&language=en").json()
     sources = source_json["sources"]
     str_sources = ",".join([source["id"] for source in sources])
+
 except KeyError:
-    print("Error: Could not get sources")
-    sys.exit(1)
+    print("Error: Could not get sources, may be blocked because of too many requests (free newsapi is limited to 100 reqs per day)")
+    str_sources = str("Reuters, bbc, cnn, fox-news, google-news, hacker-news, nytimes, the-huffington-post, the-new-york-times, business-insider, bbc-news, cbc-news, ESPN, fox-sports, google-news-uk, independent, the-wall-street-journal, the-washington-times, time, usa-today")
     
 
 def get_all_news_by_keyword(keyword, from_date="2000-01-01"):