bragov4ik/tg-media-bot

Telegram bot in rust for aliasing stickers.

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.

Usage

You can download precompiled binaries from releases page or build the project by yourself.

Before launching the bot make sure to

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

Using precompiled binary

• Download binary for your platform from releases page
• Unpack it
• Launch from command line

Manual building

• 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)

Or compile using any other method like cargo run --release

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)

• 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)

tg-media-bot's Issues

Add logging library usage

Right now logging (and log formatting) is done manually, it's more flexible, robust, etc. to use something like tracing here

Use argument parsing library

Clap will give easier extendibility, maintenance, readability, etc.

The bot doesn't recognize commands with bot alias

Expected behaviour:
Bot reacts to supported commands targeted to it with its alias (for example, /list@bot_name).

Actual behaviour:
Bot ignores such commands, reacts only to commands without any name (/list is ok, /list@bot_name is not)