Telegram Group Chat Logger

This is a bot that logs public Group Chats to an SQL Database.

Installation

• Required: Python 3.X , PostgreSQL, Telegram Bot
• Clone this repo
• pip install requirements.txt

Bot/Group Setup

• Create a group
• Add your bot to the group like so: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/37338101/how-to-add-a-bot-to-a-telegram-group
• your bot only sees commands. Use /setprivacy with @BotFather in order to allow it to see all messages in a group.

Running the bot

• Create a Database, eg. origindb
• Store your Telegram Bot Token in an environment variable, eg. echo $ORIGINTOKEN
• Add your DB credentials to model.py eg. engine = create_engine('postgresql://postgres:<password>@localhost:5432/<databasename>')
• Run: python model.py to setup the DB tables, etc.
• Run: python bot.py to start logger