Inspiration
My team and I usually search through numerous websites to decide on the field that we are volunteering in, and frequently the websites do not even provide the volunteering opportunities related to our interests. Since it is very time consuming to search through the entire website, we were motivated to create a bot that can search for opportunities for us.
What it does
HelpOutBot filters all volunteering opportunities available according to your interests and provides you links to your future volunteering opportunities.
How we built it
We used Python and its Telegram Bot library to create our HelpOutBot. We utilised json data to store the links of the volunteering opportunities according to the users' interest.
Challenges we ran into
Since we were beginners learning how to use the json data, we ran into multiple errors on how to retrieve the links. Nevertheless, our team was consistent and persistent.
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