Environment Variables

Telewater needs some variables to run successfully. These can be passed as CLI options as described in CLI Usage, or by setting environment variables.

A detailed description is given below:

Variable name	Description	CLI option
API_ID	Obtain it from my.telegram.org for your telegram account.	--API_ID
API_HASH	Obtain it from my.telegram.org for your telegram account.	--API_HASH
BOT_TOKEN	Create a bot account using @BotFather and get its token.	--token or -t
BOT_USERNAME	The user name of the bot account you are using.	--name or -n
LOUD	Boolean value (true/false), to control verbosity of logging.	--loud or -l

How to set environment variables?

In UNIX you can use the export statement. Like,

export VAR_NAME=VALUE

Easier ways

Create a .env file

Telewater reads the .env file from the directory from which it is invoked.

Fill the .env file like this:

API_ID=13.....1
API_HASH=49111111ed8...........b09fb7dd1
BOT_TOKEN=1452222220:AAG_...................tbssssQ8
BOT_USERNAME=yourAwesomeName_bot

Pass via CLI options

As described in CLI Usage, you can pass the value of these variables via the CLI options.