telegram-uploader-bot

Telegram bot written in Go that monitors directories for new files and uploads them to chats.

Features

• Monitors specified directories for new files and uploads them to Telegram chats.
• Supports multiple directories and chats configuration.
• Can add custom tags to uploaded files using plain text tags, regexps, or expr language.
• File filtering using file masks.

Prerequisites

• Go (v1.20 or higher) installed on your Linux system.
• A Telegram bot token obtained by creating a new bot using BotFather.

Installation

git clone https://github.com/3cky/telegram-uploader-bot.git
cd telegram-uploader-bot
make install

Configuration

The bot uses a YAML config file set by -c or --config-file flags. The default config file is "/usr/local/etc/telegram-uploader-bot.cfg".

To use a custom configuration file, run the bot with the -c flag followed by the path to your config file:

telegram-uploader-bot -c /path/to/custom_config.cfg

Example configuration:

telegram:
  token: "my-telegram-bot-token"

uploads:
  - directory: "/path/to/watch/dir"
    files:
      - "*.jpg" # file name match by the mask is case insensitive
    document: false # set to true to upload files as documents (without reencoding)
    min_size: 0 # min file size limit to upload (default is 0 - no limit)
    max_size: 50 MB # max file size limit to upload (default is 50 MB)
    chat: 1234567
    tags:
      plain:
        - "work"
        - "important"
      regexp:
        - ".*/(?P<name>.*)\\.jpg" # matched groups will be used as tags prefixed by group names
      expr:
        - "(file.Size() > 1024 * 1024) ? 'big' : ''" # tag files bigger than 1 megabyte

Contributing

1. Fork it
2. Create your feature branch (git checkout -b my-new-feature)
3. Commit your changes (git commit -am 'Add some feature')
4. Push to the branch (git push origin my-new-feature)
5. Create new Pull Request

License

telegram-uploader-bot is released under the Apache 2.0 license. See the LICENSE file for more info.