splitting telegram messages into chunks to avoid errors when message exceeds limit of 4096 chars

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Christian Kellner
2021-11-12 09:14:55 +01:00
parent ad7415f4f5
commit 8361d9c8ff

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@@ -1,6 +1,19 @@
const { markdown2Html } = require('../../services/markdown');
const axios = require('axios');
/**
* splitting an array into chunks because Telegram only allows for messages up to
* 4096 chars, thus we have to split messages into chunks
* @param inputArray
* @param perChunk
*/
const arrayChunks = (inputArray, perChunk) =>
inputArray.reduce((all, one, i) => {
const ch = Math.floor(i / perChunk);
all[ch] = [].concat(all[ch] || [], one);
return all;
}, []);
/**
* sends new listings to telegram
* @param serviceName e.g immowelt
@@ -12,22 +25,28 @@ const axios = require('axios');
exports.send = ({ serviceName, newListings, notificationConfig, jobKey }) => {
const { token, chatId } = notificationConfig.find((adapter) => adapter.id === 'telegram').fields;
let message = `Job: ${jobKey} | Service <b>${serviceName}</b> found <b>${newListings.length}</b> new listings:\n\n`;
//we have to split messages into chunk, because otherwise messages are going to become too big and will fail
const chunks = arrayChunks(newListings, 3);
message += newListings.map(
(o) =>
`<b>${shorten(o.title.replace(/\*/g, ''), 45)}</b>\n` +
[o.address, o.price, o.size].join(' | ') +
'\n' +
`<a href="${o.link}">${o.link}</a>\n\n`
);
const promises = chunks.map((chunk) => {
let message = `Job: ${jobKey} | Service <b>${serviceName}</b> found <b>${newListings.length}</b> new listings:\n\n`;
message += chunk.map(
(o) =>
`<b>${shorten(o.title.replace(/\*/g, ''), 45)}</b>\n` +
[o.address, o.price, o.size].join(' | ') +
'\n' +
`<a href="${o.link}">${o.link}</a>\n\n`
);
return axios.post(`https://api.telegram.org/bot${token}/sendMessage`, {
chat_id: chatId,
text: message,
parse_mode: 'HTML',
disable_web_page_preview: true,
return axios.post(`https://api.telegram.org/bot${token}/sendMessage`, {
chat_id: chatId,
text: message,
parse_mode: 'HTML',
disable_web_page_preview: true,
});
});
return Promise.all(promises);
};
function shorten(str, len = 30) {