Telegram Bot for Transmission & file control

Example

Dependencies

• PySocks
• transmission-rpc
• python-telegram-bot

Installation example

To manage our environment we will use virtualenv. First of all you need to install it and some dependencies.

sudo apt-get install build-essential libssl-dev libffi-dev python3-dev
sudo apt install python3-venv

Copy project to local folder.

cd /opt
sudo git clone https://github.com/badretdinov/tg-transmission tgt

Configure virtual enviroment and install dependencies.

sudo chown your_username:your_group /opt/tgt
cd /opt/tgt
python3 -m venv ENV
source ENV/bin/activate
pip install -r requirements.txt
deactivate
sudo chown root:root /opt/tgt

Copy config file and edit it.

sudo cp /opt/tgt/example.conf /etc/tgt.conf
sudo nano /etc/tgt.conf

Create unit file with next content

sudo nano /etc/systemd/system/tgt.service

[Unit]
Description=Telegram Bot
After=multi-user.target

[Service]
Type=idle
ExecStart=/opt/tgt/ENV/bin/python3 /opt/tgt/bot.py -config /etc/tgt.conf

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target

Configure systemd

sudo systemctl daemon-reload
sudo systemctl enable tgt.service
sudo systemctl start tgt.service

You can check the status of your service using sudo systemctl status tgt.service

Config file

{
	"user_whitelist" : "badretdinov",
	"root_dir" : "/media",
	"token" : "telegram-bot-token",
	"rpc" : {
		"address" : "127.0.0.1",
		"port" : 9091,
		"username" : "transmission",
		"password" : "12345678"
	},
	"proxy" : {
		"address" : "192.168.1.1",
		"port" : 1234,
		"username" : "user",
		"password" : "pass"
	}
}

• user_whitelist - users which allowed to use bot
• root_dir - root directory for file browsing. usually is the same as in DLNA server
• token - telegram token bot. You can get if from BotFather
• rpc - transmission rpc server address and credentials
• proxy - sock5 proxy address and credentials. Remove this key if you aren't goint to use proxy