Telegram media bot

Telegram bot written in rust for aliasing different media (currently only stickers are supported).

How it works

Initially, no aliases are specified. They can be added using /add command, which starts an addition process:

After that, you can use specified aliases enclosed in colons in your messages. The bot will send the associated media to the chat:

Usage

The bot is (hopefully still) running at http://t.me/textmedia_bot.

• Add it to a chat (or start a conversation in PM)
• (If using in chat) Give admin rights if you wish all messages in the chat to be seen.
• Use it according to /start and /help

How to run it by yourself

Requirements

• Rust/Cargo 1.56+
• Redis 6.2+

Older versions may work, however they were not tested.

Launching

You can use cargo install or manually clone into repository then either install on a machine or build and run in the folder.

• Start redis server
• Specify bot API token in TELOXIDE_TOKEN enviromental variable

Using cargo install

• Type cargo install --git https://github.com/bragov4ik/tg-media-bot.git
• Run the bot using tg-media-bot command (if cargo installation folder is in your PATH)

Manual installation

• Clone the repository into any folder
• Use cargo install inside the folder
• Write tg-media-bot to run (if does not work check that cargo installation location is in your PATH)

Manual portable launch

• Clone the repository into any folder
• Type cargo run --release to build and run the project

Arguments

There is one optional argument - Redis address. You should specify only the address itself, without redis:// prefix.

Usage example: tg-media-bot 127.0.0.1

Bugs/problems

If any bugs related to the code were found, create an issue with its description.

Planned work/features

Kind of sorted according to importance (higher - more preferable)

• more automatic deployment
• add proper (unit) tests
• add support for any media
• inline search
• more elegant way to handle common commands
• marking symbol specification (colons may cause conflict) however can be avoided right now by not giving admin rights to the bot, so it does not see all the messages
• resolve TODOs (not critical, just better practices)