Telegram Channel to Discord Newsbridge

What does it do?

With this program you can bridge/forward all messages from a Telegram Channel through a Discord Webhook onto your server.

Installation

• clone the project
• enter the directory
• copy the example.env to .env

git clone https://github.com/emhl/newsbridge.git
cd newsbridge
cp example.env .env

setting up the telegram side

• either get your Telegram Developer API ID and Hash from my.telegram.org or create a bot with @BotFather (the second option only works with public channels or if the bot is in the group/channel and privacy mode is turned off)
• set your API_ID and API_HASH in .env
• get the Telegram Channel ID, you can use this bot @username_to_id_bot
• set this value in CHAT_ID_1

Connecting the Webhook

• create a Discord Webhook through the server settings
• copy the Webhook Url and set it to WEBHOOK_URL_1

Final Step

you can either run it with docker or in a python venv (without a virtual environment is strongly discuraged)

Python venv

Requirements:

• Python

How to Run

• create venv
• enter the virtual envirenment
• install the dependencies
• run the script
• follow the instructions to authenticate the client.

python -m venv nb-venv
source nb-venv/bin/activate
pip install -r requirements.txt
python newsbridge.py

note: too keep it running you could use something like screen, tmux or docker

Docker

Requrements:

• docker
• docker-compose

create a session token anon.session by running a temporary container in interacrive mode

touch anon.session
docker build -t newsbridge .
docker run -it -v ./anon.session:/app/anon.session \
-v ./data:/app/data \
--env-file .env --restart unless-stopped \
newsbridge:latest

after that you can run it with docker-compose

docker-compose up -d