A gateway between IRC chat channels and Telegram groups
How do I setup this IRC-Telegram gateway?
- First get an eggdrop bot up and running
- On your Telegram client, send
/startto @BotFather - Send
/newbotto @BotFather - Enter the nickname of the bot you want to create
- Enter the username of the bot you want to create
- You'll see confirmation message like this:
Done! Congratulations on your new bot. You will find it at telegram.me/<BOTBNAME>. You can now add a description, about section and profile picture for your bot, see /help for a list of commands. By the way, when you.ve finished creating your cool bot, ping out Bot Support if you want a better username for it. Just make sure the bot is fully operational before you do this.
Use this token to access the HTTP API:
123456789:AABCD-EfGhIj_KlMn_OpQrStUvWxYz12345
For a description of the Bot API, see this page: https://core.telegram.org/bots/api
7. Copy the `123456789` part into the Telegram-API.tcl script at tg_bot_id
8. Copy the `AABCD-EfGhIj_KlMn_OpQrStUvWxYz12345` part into the Telegram-API.tcl script at tg_bot_token
9. Add the bot to your Telegram group (don't forget the @ sign before the nickname of your bot)
10. Send a message to the group
11. Open the `https://api.telegram.org/bot123456789:AABCD-EfGhIj_KlMn_OpQrStUvWxYz12345/getUpdates` link in your webbrowser, where 123456789 is your bot id, and the AABCD-...12345 is your bottoken
12. Look up the chat_id of your chat group, and add it to the tg_channels array in Telegram-API.tcl script, along with the name of your IRC chat group
13. Add the Telegram-API.tcl script to your Eggdrop: `source /path/to/your/scripts/Telegram-API.tcl`
14. You're done! Enjoy!