A Telegram Daemon (not a bot) for file downloading automation for channels of which you have admin privileges.
Based on the original work of @alfem: https://github.com/alfem/telegram-download-daemon
If you have got an Internet connected computer or NAS and you want to automate file downloading from Telegram channels, this daemon is for you.
Telegram bots are limited to 20Mb file size downloads. So I wrote this agent or daemon to allow bigger downloads (limited to 2GB by Telegram APIs).
You need Python3.8 or above
Install dependencies by running this command:
pip install telegram-download-daemon-ng
Obtain your own api id: https://core.telegram.org/api/obtaining_api_id
You need to configure these values:
Environment Variable | Command Line argument | Description | Default Value |
---|---|---|---|
TELEGRAM_DAEMON_API_ID |
--api-id |
api_id from https://core.telegram.org/api/obtaining_api_id | |
TELEGRAM_DAEMON_API_HASH |
--api-hash |
api_hash from https://core.telegram.org/api/obtaining_api_id | |
TELEGRAM_DAEMON_CHANNEL |
--channel |
Channel id to download from it (Please, check Issue 45, Issue 48 and Issue 73) | |
TELEGRAM_DAEMON_BOT |
--bot |
Bot identifier to use. If not present, it will be requested (or the phone number) on first start | |
TELEGRAM_DAEMON_SESSION_PATH |
Path with session files | ||
TELEGRAM_DAEMON_DEST |
--dest |
Destination path for downloaded files | /telegram-downloads |
TELEGRAM_DAEMON_TEMP |
--temp |
Destination path for temporary (download in progress) files | use --dest |
TELEGRAM_DAEMON_DUPLICATES |
--duplicates |
What to do with duplicated files: ignore, overwrite or rename them | rename |
You can define them as Environment Variables, or put them as a command line arguments, for example:
python3 telegram_download_daemon.py --api-id <your-id> --api-hash <your-hash> --channel <channel-number>
Finally, resend any file link to the channel to start the downloading. This daemon can manage many downloads simultaneously.
You can also 'talk' to this daemon using your Telegram client:
If you are using Podman instead of Docker, just replace the
docker
word in the following commands bypodman
.
On a terminal run:
docker pull nyaran/telegram-download-daemon-ng
Then run it.
Replace values for TELEGRAM_DAEMON_API_ID
, TELEGRAM_DAEMON_API_HASH
and TELEGRAM_DAEMON_CHANNEL
(see the table
above), and set the paths for the volumes.
docker run \
--rm \
-e TELEGRAM_DAEMON_API_ID="YOUR_API_ID_HERE" \
-e TELEGRAM_DAEMON_API_HASH="YOUR_API_HASH_HERE" \
-e TELEGRAM_DAEMON_CHANNEL="YOUR_CHANNEL_ID_HERE" \
-v "DOWNLOADS_VOLUME_PATH_HERE":/downloads \
-v "SESSION_VOLUME_PATH_HERE":/session \
-v "TEMP_VOLUME_PATH_HERE":/temp \
--name telegram-download-daemon-ng \
nyaran/telegram-download-daemon-ng
Note. The first time, you need to generate your session, to do that, and if you are not providing your bot ID, run the
image in the interactive way, using -it
(is important to use the same parameters)
docker run -it \
--rm \
-e TELEGRAM_DAEMON_API_ID="YOUR_API_ID_HERE" \
-e TELEGRAM_DAEMON_API_HASH="YOUR_API_HASH_HERE" \
-e TELEGRAM_DAEMON_CHANNEL="YOUR_CHANNEL_ID_HERE" \
-v "DOWNLOADS_VOLUME_PATH_HERE":/downloads \
-v "SESSION_VOLUME_PATH_HERE":/session \
-v "TEMP_VOLUME_PATH_HERE":/temp \
--name telegram-download-daemon-ng \
nyaran/telegram-download-daemon-ng
Or just provide the bot ID (Replace "YOUR_BOT_ID" with the identifier of your bot):
docker run -it \
--rm \
-e TELEGRAM_DAEMON_API_ID="YOUR_API_ID_HERE" \
-e TELEGRAM_DAEMON_API_HASH="YOUR_API_HASH_HERE" \
-e TELEGRAM_DAEMON_CHANNEL="YOUR_CHANNEL_ID_HERE" \
-e TELEGRAM_DAEMON_BOT="YOUR_BOT_ID" \
-v "DOWNLOADS_VOLUME_PATH_HERE":/downloads \
-v "SESSION_VOLUME_PATH_HERE":/session \
-v "TEMP_VOLUME_PATH_HERE":/temp \
--name telegram-download-daemon-ng \
nyaran/telegram-download-daemon-ng