Telegam bot for Flibusta

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Allows to search, browse and download books from Flibusta library. Uses TOR to connect to Flibusta hidden service. Uses Telegram Bot API. Respond only to the bot admin or telegram users which are allowed by the bot admin.

Installation

First of all ensure there is a tor instance installed and available for use. You also will need Java 8 to run the bot. There are several ways you may install this bot on your host:

From the source code

Make sure you have Git installed , then check out the bot source code to your host:

git clone https://github.com/flicus/flibot

next you need to build the bot from source codes:

cd flibot
gradlew shadowJar

now you ready to start the bot, fat jar with all dependencies included are here starter/build/libs/starter-0.9.0-all.jar

Download jar file

Download it from Release page

Configuration

Before you will start the bot you need to do some configuration. Bot checking for configuration parameters in the environment variables first. If there is flibot variable exist, all parameters will be read from the environment variables. Otherwise, bot searching for bot.ini file with these parameters.

Parameters

name - telegram bot name
token - telegram bot token
usetor - using tor or not
torhost - host where tor installed
torport - port of the tor
admin - telegram username who will be admin for this bot instance

bot.ini file example

name=test_bot
token=123456:blablabla
usetor=true
torhost=localhost
torport=9050
admin=myusername

Start up

java -jar starter-0.9.0-all.jar &

Supported commands

Just type your favorite author name or book title in the chat, bot will ask where should it search this - among authors or book titles, additional commands supported:

/k                  - OPDS catalog browsing
/r <username>       - add username to the allowed list (available only to the bot admin)
/u <username>       - remove username from the allowed list (available only to the bot admin)