Telegram Download Bot

Telegram bot to download files from Telegram without size limit. It's based on a self hosted Telegram Bot API (to ) and a Node app using Telegraf

Features

Supported file types: document and video
Download files without a size limit
Add an authentication system to allow only certain users to use the bot
Support images, audio and other file types

Getting Started

Prerequisites

You need an api_id and api_hash: https://core.telegram.org/api/obtaining_api_id
You need Bot token: can be obtained with @BotFather or if you need more help, you can read this: https://core.telegram.org/bots#how-do-i-create-a-bot

Installing

You need to have Docker and Docker Compose installed. If you don't have it, you can follow the instructions here: https://docs.docker.com/engine/install/ and https://docs.docker.com/compose/install/

git clone https://github.com/marcaureln/tg-dl-bot.git
cd tg-dl-bot
cp .env.example .env
vim .env # Edit .env file and set your api_id, api_hash and bot token
vim docker-compose.yml # Edit docker-compose.yml file, you can replace the content with the docker-compose.prod.yml
docker-compose up -d # Run the bot

Usage

Send or forward the bot (created with @BotFather) any message containing a supported media type and it will download it on your server. Files are stored by default in the /telegram/ folder of your Docker container, you can change it in the .env file with the OUTPUT_DIR variable. Bind the folder to your host machine to access the files from your host. You can also serve the files with a web server like Nginx.

Contributing

Feel free to open an issue or a pull request.