How I Built a Telegram Bot for Real-Time Crypto Alerts (And You Can Too)

How I Built a Telegram Bot for Real-Time Crypto Alerts (And You Can Too) You know that sinking feeling when you check your portfolio and realize Bitcoin just pumped 15% while you were asleep? Or when you've been manually refreshing CoinGecko every ten minutes waiting for ETH to hit your target price? Yeah, I got tired of that too. I was missing critical price movements because I couldn't stare at charts 24/7. So I built a Telegram bot that watches the crypto markets for me and sends instant alerts when prices hit my targets. No more FOMO, no more missed opportunities. In this tutorial, I'll show you exactly how I built it using Python, the CoinGecko API, and Telegram's bot framework. Best part? It took less than an afternoon and costs nothing to run. The Problem: Manual Crypto Monitoring Doesn't Scale Before building this bot, my crypto monitoring workflow was a mess: Multiple browser tabs with different exchanges open Setting phone alarms to check prices at odd hours Missing significa