telegram-moderator/README.md

Telegram Group Chat Logger

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

Installation

• Required: Python 3.x, pip, PostgreSQL
• Clone this repo
• pip install --upgrade -r requirements.txt

Telegram Bot Setup

• Create a bot by talking to BotFather: https://core.telegram.org/bots#creating-a-new-bot
• Store your Telegram Bot Token in environment variable BOT_TOKEN. It will look similar to this:

export TELEGRAM_BOT_TOKEN="4813829027:ADJFKAf0plousH2EZ2jBfxxRWFld3oK34ya"

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

Database setup

• Store database URL in environment variable.

export TELEGRAM_BOT_POSTGRES_URL="postgresql://<user>:<password>@localhost:5432/<databasename>"

• Run: python model.py to setup the DB tables.

Running the bot locally

• Run: python bot.py to start logger
• Messages will be displayed on stdout as they are logged.

On Heroku

• You must enable the worker on Heroku app dashboard. (By default it is off.)