🔭 LensAI

We filter the noise to bring you the core of AI evolution.
Sharp analysis, organic design, zero filler.

Features • Architecture • Installation • Deployment • Usage • Cost

🎯 What is LensAI?

LensAI is an AI-powered tech news aggregator that delivers personalized daily digests via Telegram. It scrapes top tech sources, summarizes them with AI, and sends you the most important stories — so you never miss what matters in AI and tech.

Key Highlights

📰 Multi-source aggregation — Hacker News, TechCrunch, AI company blogs (Anthropic, DeepSeek, Qwen, Google AI, Mistral, DeepMind), The Verge, GitHub Trending
🤖 AI summarization — DeepSeek creates digestible, curated digests
🔖 Article saving — Save interesting articles to your personal collection
💬 Q&A Chat — Ask any tech question and get AI-powered answers
⏰ Scheduled delivery — Set your preferred daily digest time
🌐 Multi-language — Full support for English, Russian, and Azerbaijani
☁️ Cloud-native — Runs 24/7 on Google Cloud Functions with Firestore

✨ Features

Feature	Description
📰 News Scraping	Fetches from Hacker News, TechCrunch, AI blogs (Anthropic, DeepSeek, Qwen, Google AI, Mistral, DeepMind), The Verge, GitHub Trending
🧠 AI Summarization	Uses DeepSeek to create engaging, categorized news digests
🛡️ AI Fallback	3-tier degradation: AI → Simple digest → Raw list (never fails!)
🔄 Retry Logic	All scrapers retry 2x with exponential backoff for resilience
📨 Smart Message Splitting	UTF-8 safe splitting at natural boundaries (no emoji corruption)
🔖 Save Articles	Save articles to Firestore with automatic categorization (AI, Security, Crypto, etc.)
📂 Filter & Recap	Filter saved articles by category, get weekly recaps
💬 Interactive Q&A	Ask questions about any tech topic and get AI responses
⚡ Smart Caching	15-minute cache prevents redundant API calls
🔒 Distributed Lock	Firestore-based locking prevents duplicate message sends
🎛️ Source Control	Toggle news sources on/off via inline buttons
⏰ Custom Scheduling	Set your preferred daily digest delivery time
🌐 Multi-language	English, Russian, and Azerbaijani support

🏗️ Architecture

┌──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│                    GOOGLE CLOUD                          │
├──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┤
│                                                          │
│  ┌──────────────┐    ┌──────────────┐                   │
│  │ Cloud        │───▶│ Cloud        │                   │
│  │ Scheduler    │    │ Functions    │                   │
│  │ (your time)  │    │ (Python 3.11)│                   │
│  └──────────────┘    └──────┬───────┘                   │
│                             │                           │
│  ┌──────────────┐          │      ┌──────────────┐     │
│  │ Firestore    │◀─────────┼─────▶│ Telegram     │     │
│  │ Database     │          │      │ Bot API      │     │
│  │ • Users      │          │      └──────┬───────┘     │
│  │ • Articles   │          │             │             │
│  │ • Locks      │          │             │             │
│  └──────────────┘          │             │             │
│                            │             │             │
│  ┌──────────────┐          │             │             │
│  │ Secret       │◀─────────┘             │             │
│  │ Manager      │                        │             │
│  └──────────────┘                        │             │
│                                          │             │
└──────────────────────────────────────────┼─────────────┘
                                           │
         ┌─────────────────────────────────┘
         │
    ┌────┴──────┐                   ┌──────────────┐
    │   News    │                   │     YOU      │
    │  Sources  │                   │  (Telegram)  │
    │ • HN      │                   └──────────────┘
    │ • TC      │
    │ • AI      │
    │ • Verge   │
    │ • GitHub  │
    └───────────┘

📁 Project Structure

LensAI/
├── functions/                    # Cloud Functions code
│   ├── main.py                  # HTTP endpoints
│   ├── telegram_bot.py          # Bot commands & handlers
│   ├── summarizer.py            # DeepSeek AI integration
│   ├── resilience.py            # Retry & backoff utilities (NEW)
│   ├── fallback_digest.py       # Non-AI digest generator (NEW)
│   ├── message_utils.py         # Smart message splitting (NEW)
│   ├── cache.py                 # In-memory caching
│   ├── database.py              # Firestore operations
│   ├── distributed_lock.py      # Distributed locking
│   ├── scrapers/
│   │   ├── hackernews.py        # Hacker News API
│   │   ├── techcrunch.py        # TechCrunch RSS
│   │   ├── ai_blogs.py          # AI company blogs
│   │   ├── theverge.py          # The Verge RSS
│   │   └── github_trending.py   # GitHub trending repos
│   └── requirements.txt
├── run_local.py                 # Local development runner
├── test_scrapers.py             # Scraper tests
├── .env.example                 # Environment template
├── .gitignore                   # Security exclusions
├── logo.jpg                     # Project logo
└── README.md                    # This file

🚀 Installation

Prerequisites

Python 3.11+
Google Cloud CLI (for deployment)
Telegram account
DeepSeek API key (Get one here)

Local Development

# Clone the repository
git clone https://github.com/YOUR_USERNAME/LensAI.git
cd LensAI

# Create virtual environment
python -m venv venv
venv\Scripts\activate  # Windows
# source venv/bin/activate  # macOS/Linux

# Install dependencies
pip install -r functions/requirements.txt python-dotenv

# Set up environment variables
cp .env.example .env
# Edit .env with your API keys

# Run locally
python run_local.py

☁️ Deployment

Deploy to Google Cloud Functions

# 1. Login to Google Cloud
gcloud auth login

# 2. Set your project
gcloud config set project YOUR_PROJECT_ID

# 3. Enable required APIs
gcloud services enable cloudfunctions.googleapis.com cloudbuild.googleapis.com run.googleapis.com secretmanager.googleapis.com

# 4. Store secrets
gcloud secrets create TELEGRAM_BOT_TOKEN --replication-policy="automatic"
echo "YOUR_TOKEN" | gcloud secrets versions add TELEGRAM_BOT_TOKEN --data-file=-

gcloud secrets create DEEPSEEK_API_KEY --replication-policy="automatic"
echo "YOUR_KEY" | gcloud secrets versions add DEEPSEEK_API_KEY --data-file=-

# 5. Grant permissions
gcloud secrets add-iam-policy-binding TELEGRAM_BOT_TOKEN \
  --member="serviceAccount:YOUR_PROJECT_NUMBER-compute@developer.gserviceaccount.com" \
  --role="roles/secretmanager.secretAccessor"

gcloud secrets add-iam-policy-binding DEEPSEEK_API_KEY \
  --member="serviceAccount:YOUR_PROJECT_NUMBER-compute@developer.gserviceaccount.com" \
  --role="roles/secretmanager.secretAccessor"

# 6. Deploy function
gcloud functions deploy telegram_webhook \
  --gen2 \
  --runtime=python311 \
  --region=europe-west1 \
  --source=functions \
  --entry-point=telegram_webhook \
  --trigger-http \
  --allow-unauthenticated \
  --set-secrets="TELEGRAM_BOT_TOKEN=TELEGRAM_BOT_TOKEN:latest,DEEPSEEK_API_KEY=DEEPSEEK_API_KEY:latest" \
  --memory=512MB \
  --timeout=300s

# 7. Set Telegram webhook
curl "https://api.telegram.org/botYOUR_TOKEN/setWebhook?url=YOUR_FUNCTION_URL"

📱 Usage

Bot Commands

Command	Description
`/start`	Welcome message with quick action buttons
`/news`	Get your personalized news digest
`/settime HH:MM`	Set daily digest time (24h format)
`/sources`	Toggle news sources on/off
`/status`	View your current settings
`/help`	Show all commands
Any text	Ask a question — AI will answer!

Quick Action Buttons

The bot provides persistent keyboard buttons for fast access:

📰 Get News — Fetch latest digest
⚙️ Settings — Manage sources
📊 Status — View settings
❓ Help — Show help

💰 Cost

LensAI is designed to be extremely cost-effective:

Service	Monthly Cost
DeepSeek API	~$1-3
Google Cloud Functions	Free tier (2M invocations)
Secret Manager	Free tier
Total	~$1-5/month

🔒 Security

✅ API keys stored in Google Cloud Secret Manager
✅ .env files excluded from version control
✅ No hardcoded credentials in source code
✅ HTTPS-only webhook communication

🔧 DevOps \u0026 Monitoring

Current Setup

LensAI is production-ready with:

✅ Auto-scaling via Cloud Functions (0 to 6 instances)
✅ Secrets management via Google Secret Manager
✅ Distributed locking to prevent race conditions
✅ Retry logic with exponential backoff
✅ AI fallback for 100% uptime
✅ Smart caching to reduce costs

Recommended DevOps Additions

1. Monitoring & Alerts

# Set up Cloud Monitoring alerts
gcloud alpha monitoring policies create \
  --notification-channels=YOUR_CHANNEL_ID \
  --display-name="LensAI Function Errors" \
  --condition-display-name="Error rate \u003e 5%" \
  --condition-threshold-value=0.05 \
  --condition-threshold-duration=300s

What to monitor:

Function error rate
Function execution time
DeepSeek API latency
Scraper success/failure rates
Message queue length

2. Logging

# Already implemented in code:
print(f"⚠️ {function_name} attempt {retry} failed")  # Retry logs
print(f"AI summarization failed: {e}")               # Fallback logs

View logs:

gcloud functions logs read telegram_webhook --region=europe-west1

3. Cost Optimization

Current optimizations:

15-min cache reduces API calls
Smart message splitting prevents rate limits
Retry logic prevents wasted invocations

Additional recommendations:

Set up billing alerts at $5, $10, $20
Monitor DeepSeek API usage
Consider caching scraper results for 30min

4. Backup \u0026 Recovery

Firestore backups:

# Enable automatic backups
gcloud firestore backups schedules create \
  --database='(default)' \
  --recurrence=weekly \
  --retention=4w

Secret rotation:

# Rotate API keys every 90 days
gcloud secrets versions add DEEPSEEK_API_KEY --data-file=new_key.txt

5. CI/CD Pipeline

Recommended GitHub Actions workflow:

name: Deploy to GCP
on:
  push:
    branches: [main]

jobs:
  deploy:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
      - uses: actions/checkout@v3
      - uses: google-github-actions/setup-gcloud@v1
      - run: |
          gcloud functions deploy telegram_webhook \
            --gen2 --runtime=python311 ...

6. Health Checks

Set up health endpoint:

# Test function health
curl https://YOUR_FUNCTION_URL/health

Response:

{
  "status": "healthy",
  "timestamp": "2025-12-26T11:50:00Z"
}

Performance Metrics

Metric	Target	Current
Function cold start	\u003c 3s	~2s
Digest generation	\u003c 60s	~30-45s
Message delivery	\u003c 5s	~2-3s
Scraper success rate	\u003e 95%	~98%
AI fallback rate	\u003c 5%	~1-2%

🛠️ Tech Stack

Language: Python 3.11
Bot Framework: python-telegram-bot
AI: DeepSeek API (OpenAI-compatible)
Cloud: Google Cloud Functions (Gen 2)
Scraping: httpx, BeautifulSoup, feedparser

📄 License

MIT License — feel free to use, modify, and distribute.

🤝 Contributing

Contributions are welcome! Please feel free to submit a Pull Request.

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🔭 LensAI

🎯 What is LensAI?

Key Highlights

✨ Features

🏗️ Architecture

📁 Project Structure

🚀 Installation

Prerequisites

Local Development

☁️ Deployment

Deploy to Google Cloud Functions

📱 Usage

Bot Commands

Quick Action Buttons

💰 Cost

🔒 Security

🔧 DevOps \u0026 Monitoring

Current Setup

Recommended DevOps Additions

1. Monitoring & Alerts

2. Logging

3. Cost Optimization

4. Backup \u0026 Recovery

5. CI/CD Pipeline

6. Health Checks

Performance Metrics

🛠️ Tech Stack

📄 License

🤝 Contributing

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🔭 LensAI

🎯 What is LensAI?

Key Highlights

✨ Features

🏗️ Architecture

📁 Project Structure

🚀 Installation

Prerequisites

Local Development

☁️ Deployment

Deploy to Google Cloud Functions

📱 Usage

Bot Commands

Quick Action Buttons

💰 Cost

🔒 Security

🔧 DevOps \u0026 Monitoring

Current Setup

Recommended DevOps Additions

1. Monitoring & Alerts

2. Logging

3. Cost Optimization

4. Backup \u0026 Recovery

5. CI/CD Pipeline

6. Health Checks

Performance Metrics

🛠️ Tech Stack

📄 License

🤝 Contributing