A telegram bot to archive videos of classes.
- No disk space used for videos. Only file ID's are stored in database
- Embedded; Sqlite is used as database. This means that you don't have to setup a external database for it.
- Admins and review queues. Users can freely submit videos to bot and admins can verify them, making them available to other users as well.
- Semi-Stateless. The only state used in bot is when users are uploading videos. Inline buttons do not use states.
To compile and run the bot, you need .Net 6. Simply run
dotnet build --configuration Releaseto compile the bot.
To run the bot, at first you have to set the environmental variable of BOT_TOKEN as your Telegram bot token. You can
also optionally, set DB_PATH to set a custom database path. Otherwise this is defaulted to database.db. Then just
run the program. Another option which can be used is UPLOADER_PRIVACY which can be either none, name or all. Any
other value is interpreted as all. This value defines if users can see the uploader name of videos.
After running the program send /start to bot to test it. Then you probably want to make yourself the admin of the bot.
It is recommended to at first stop the bot and then open the database of the bot. Then, go to users table and find
yourself and make yourself admin by changing value of column of is_admin to 1.