Unofficial Google Search Bot for Telegram

Telegram bot (support both inline/chat) that return search results (web/image) from Google

How to use

You are strongly advised to host your own as Google has imposed a 100 searches per day limits on their API unless you start paying. As an idependent dev, it's not something I could afford. Currently you could test the bot at [https://telegram.me/GoogleSearchUnofficialBot], but it's only intended for evaluation purpose due to the limited quota available. Sorry, but it has to be like this

Run instruction

git clone https://github.com/nkming2/google-search-telegram-bot
cd google-search-telegram-bot
pip install -e .
PYTHONPATH=src python3 src/app/__init__.py

You might want to do this in a venv env

After setting up these you'll have to fill in your API keys in config.json

Hosting on pythonanywhere

One easy option to host the bot freely is on PAW. In your web console you should set the source directory to src and modify the WSGI config file based on the sample given in this repo (misc/pythonanywhere_com_wsgi.py)

config.json

This file holds constants like API keys that should be kept outside of the repo. config.json should be a text file of valid serialized JSON. The following fields must be present:

telegram_bot_token
- Your telegram bot token. You need to obtain it via @BotFather following the instructions outlined at https://core.telegram.org/bots
google_api_key
- Your Google API key used to authenticate the Custom Search API. You need to obtain it using the setup tool here: https://console.developers.google.com/start/api?id=customsearch&credential=client_key
search_engine_id
- Your Search Engine ID. Create a new engine at https://cse.google.com/cse/all. When creating a new engine, input a random site in "Sites to search". After creation, click modify, then change "Search only included sites" to "Search the entire web" and remove the random site you just added
allow_only_users
- You could limit who could use the bot hosted by you. You can either whitelist a user by id or username. Example: [999999,"fancy_user"] would allow the 2 users to use your hosted bot. An empty list would allow all
paw_app
- Useful only when you are hosting on PAW (See Hosting on pythonanywhere for more details)
- url
  - The URL of your web app
- webhook_secret
  - Any string, must be valid URL character

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