pawabot

My personal Telegram bot: aria2 management, torrent sites crawling, media organization with mvodb and Plex, etc.

This bot provides a command to search for torrents on the web, and let you select them for download. There is a basic permission system allowing to manage multiple users for one bot.

Requirements

pawabot requires Python 3.6 or above.

To install Python 3.6, I recommend using pyenv.

# install pyenv
git clone https://github.com/pyenv/pyenv ~/.pyenv

# setup pyenv (you should also put these three lines in .bashrc or similar)
export PATH="${HOME}/.pyenv/bin:${PATH}"
export PYENV_ROOT="${HOME}/.pyenv"
eval "$(pyenv init -)"

# install Python 3.6
pyenv install 3.6.12

# make it available globally
pyenv global system 3.6.12

Installation

With pip:

python3.6 -m pip install pawabot

With pipx:

python3.6 -m pip install --user pipx

pipx install --python python3.6 pawabot

Setup

1. Create your Telegram bot account by talking to the @botfather bot.
2. Write your bot token in ~/.config/pawabot/bot_token.txt, or set and export the environment variable BOT_TOKEN.
3. Register your Telegram main account as administrator in the database with:

pawabot create-admin -i MY_TG_ID -u MY_TG_USERNAME

Usage

usage: pawabot [-h] [-L {TRACE,DEBUG,INFO,SUCCESS,WARNING,ERROR,CRITICAL}]
               ...

optional arguments:
  -h, --help            show this help message and exit

Commands:
  
    run                 Run the bot.
    create-admin        Create an administrator in the database.
    create-user         Create a user in the database.
    list-users          List registered users.

Global options:
  -L {TRACE,DEBUG,INFO,SUCCESS,WARNING,ERROR,CRITICAL}, --log-level {TRACE,DEBUG,INFO,SUCCESS,WARNING,ERROR,CRITICAL}
                        Log level to use

Commands:

• create-admin
• create-user
• list-users
• run

create-admin

usage: pawabot create-admin [-h] [-i UID] [-u USERNAME]

Create an administrator in the database.

optional arguments:
  -h, --help            Show this help message and exit.
  -i UID, --uid UID     Telegram user id.
  -u USERNAME, --username USERNAME
                        Telegram user name.

create-user

usage: pawabot create-user [-h] [-i UID] [-u USERNAME] [-a]

Create a user in the database.

optional arguments:
  -h, --help            Show this help message and exit.
  -i UID, --uid UID     Telegram user id.
  -u USERNAME, --username USERNAME
                        Telegram user name.
  -a, --admin           Give admin access.

list-users

usage: pawabot list-users [-h]

List registered users.

optional arguments:
  -h, --help  Show this help message and exit.

run

usage: pawabot run [-h]

Run the bot.

optional arguments:
  -h, --help  Show this help message and exit.

Screenshots

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