Talkshow Guests

If you want to stay informed about upcoming guests on German talkshows, your only option seems to be to periodically check the website of each show manually. I wrote a crawler and Telegram bot to automate this process.

Please note that in some instances the terms of service of these talkshow websites discourage scraping. Another challenge is the fact that they largely use unstructured formatting. For example, a type of heading that would on one occasion contain the names of the guests of a given talkshow might be used as the heading for a subtopic on another occasion. For these reasons, I have taken my instance of the bot offline until further notice.

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