Telegram Channels Bridge

A SimpleBot plugin that allows to subscribe to Telegram channels from Delta Chat.

For bridging groups use: https://github.com/simplebot-org/simplebot_tggroups

Installation

To install run:

pip install simplebot-tgchan

Configuration

See https://github.com/simplebot-org/simplebot to know how to configure the bot with an e-mail account.

Before you start using the bot, you need to get your own API ID and hash, go to https://my.telegram.org/ and get them then configure the bot:

simplebot -a bot@example.com db -s simplebot_tgchan/api_id "12345"
simplebot -a bot@example.com db -s simplebot_tgchan/api_hash "0123456789abcdef"

Then you must provide a phone number for the bot to use, to start session in Telegram:

simplebot -a bot@example.com login

After entering the verification code you received in Telegram or via SMS, start the bot:

simplebot -a bot@example.com serve

Then you can start subscribing to Telegram channels adding the bot to Delta Chat groups and using /sub command.

Tweaking Default Configuration

You can tweak the interval (in seconds) the bot checks Telegram channels for new messages:

simplebot -a bot@example.com db -s simplebot_tgchan/delay 300

By default the bot checks Telegram for new messages every 5 minutes.

You can tweak the maximum size (in bytes) of attachments the bot will download:

simplebot -a bot@example.com db -s simplebot_tgchan/max_size 5242880

By default the bot will download attachments of up to 5MB.

You can restrict the usage of /sub and /unsub commands to bot administrators only:

simplebot -a bot@example.com db -s simplebot_tgchan/allow_subscriptions 0

By default the bot will allow any user to subscribe to Telegram channels.

To add your address as the bot administrator:

simplebot -a bot@example.com admin -a me@example.com