Google photos alternative using telegram.
Since free use of google photos is comming to an end, i needed an alternative so i ended up using telegram and it's features to create a free cloud like environment.You can only upload and download photos now. Since i use the botapi to download files and the limit of bot api file download is 50mb i decided not to add videos upload.
I will be also sharing an xml file which can be used in an android phone having tasker installed to upload to telegram but please note that you can only download.
1.Run "python3 config.py" in terminal
config,logs and TGDownloads will be created in your program directory
2.Add your api_id,api_hash,bot_username and bot_token in config.txt in config folder
For api id and api_hash
***********************
Go to https://my.telegram.org, under API Development
Enter you phone number and login details
create an app get the api id and hash
For both bot user name and bot token
****************************
Search for BotFather in telegram
Send "/start" and then "/newbot" to BotFather
Then choose a name and username for your bot
You will get a message with bot token, please copy your bot token
Now search for your bot in telegram with the username and send "\start" and a "Hi"
3.Run "python3 TGPhotos.py --startupload" after adding folder paths in folderpaths.txt in confg folder
you will be asked to enter your phone number and otp code during the first upload and it will start to upload after successful login
"python3 TGPhotos.py --startupload" to start uploading all the files in the folders paths you have entered "python3 TGPhotos.py --mupload /full/path/to/file.jpg" to quickly upload a file "python3 TGPhotos.py --download filename.png" to download file based on it's name "python3 TGPhotos.py --date" to download files based on date "python3 TGPhotos.py --list" to view all the files that have been uploaded
You can also just run the program to see a list of options
You can use bash aliases to quickly access the program
"nano ~/.bashrc"
Then add the following code to the end
"alias TGPhotos="python3 /home/user/TGPhotos/TGPhotos.py"
press ctrl+o and then ctrl+x
Then enter ". ~/.bashrc" in the terminal.
Unlimited orginal quality photo upload.
Telegram
Telethon (https://github.com/LonamiWebs/Telethon)
requests (https://github.com/requests/requests)
Tasker App (if you want to use in android) : The tasker profile uses bot api to upload files so you need to go to your bot chat and search for the filename if you want to download the files.