Telegram to Pocket bot

Save bookmarks to Pocket sending links to Telegram bot

Using

Instalation

You can use Windows, Ubuntu or macOS executables provided in the latest release, but preferred way is to use Docker and Docker Compose.

To do it clone this repo

git clone https://github.com/mishankov/telegram-to-pocket-bot.git
cd telegram-to-pocket-bot
mv config.template.toml config.toml

Then edit config.toml file with folowing variables:

• telegramBotToken - Telegram bot token provided by BotFather. Docs
• telegramAllowedUsers - IDs of Telegram users, that well be allowed to use this bot. You can get your ID from this bot
• pocketConsumerKey - Pocket Consumer Key you can get by creating an app in Pocket. Docs
• pocketAccessToken - access token you get using Pocket Authentication API

Then run container

docker-compose up -d

You can automaticaly generate pocketAccessToken running

./build/generate_token

If you have nim compiler installed. Or you can run

docker exec -it tg-to-pocket ./build/generate_token

After you followed all the instructions you will be provided with the line pocketAccessToken = <token> that you can put in config.toml

Telegram webhook setup

After you get all up and runnig you should be able to send HTTP POST request to http://<your_ip>:5000//tg/wh/<TELEGRAM_BOT_TOKEN>. Telegram nowadays only send webhooks to HTTPS endpoints. So you need some kind of reverse proxy to setup HTTPS. I recommend using Caddy. Basic config in Caddyfile to get started:

{
    email <your email to sign ssl certificate>
}

<your domain> {
    reverse_proxy 0.0.0.0:5000
}

After Caddy is set up you shoud be able to use setWebhook method of Telegram Bot API to setup incoming webhooks to your bot.

After you have done this, try to send link to your bot. It should appear here https://getpocket.com/saves